Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Today is the chance for you. No Self-interest, no shuffling of the demands of conscience, no sophistry about the holiness of peace, should shake you. Be true to your manhood, to your education, to your youth. The time is now. In three months it may be too late...
...workmanlike. The piece is too long for its substance; it impresses one as being "padded," as though the writer had incorporated unimportant incidents merely to please his fancy or give his descriptive powers a fling. The ending is a trifle unintelligible, being either so obvious as to utterly shake the foundation of the plot and the action, or so enigmatical as to totally mystify. However, to the question: does the story hold the interest throughout? The answer must be in the affirmative, and that, after all, is what we want...
Yale's triumph over Princeton cannot shake our confidence in a Harvard victory. All Yale teams have looked alike to Haughton; the bigger they are, the harder they fall...
...finished their studies, would congregate in open places to play games and indulge in healthful recreation. The roughness of the sports and the evident enjoyment of the participants were noted with surprise by the staid and sober chroniclers of the time, and these old scholars were inclined to shake their heads at such fruitless effort. As the games seemed to give the young men a certain mental alertness, the scribes suggested in their writings that perhaps the sports should not be forbidden...
...crew, the only one which has been rowing for the past three days, underwent a general shake-up in its order, but the personnel remains unchanged. G. D. Leighton came from bow to seven and all the starboard men moved up one place accordingly. The crew as it is boated at present follows...