Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sort of thing to shake the confidence of those who have always believed a silk purse could not be made...
...comes a blow that helps shake the cobwebs from our brains, shatter the illusions that clouded our reason, and adroitly puts to flight the false hopes we fostered for the future of athletics. Football is to become an even larger source of revenue for great universities, a more important factor in the commercial life of institutions for the development of 'educated men' and leaves still farther behind its career as a great game, when played for sport, before tainted with professionalism...
...countless articles on the younger generation which I have read in every sort of periodical I should judge that the youth of America is facing many of the same problems which are before the German Youth Movement. Here there is not the same crying need for a social shake up that there is in Germany. Hence the reaction of youth to old standards is correspondingly less violent and perhaps less inspired...
Deputy Jacques Louis Dumesnil secured the only really hearty laugh of the week by shouting: "What difference does all this talk about taxes make? In England a gentleman who does not pay his quota to the State is looked down upon and his former friends will not shake his hand. In France we never rest until the man who dodges has told us how he does...
...will shake hands as follows: 115-pound class, Turner (B) vs. Palmer (S): 125-pound class, Goldberg (H) vs. DeLeon (S): 136-pound class, Stearns (H) vs. Captain Jeffers (S): 145-pound class, Corson (H) vs. Armger (S); 158-pound class, Wood (H) vs. Phillips (S); 175-pound class, Hayne (H) vs. Kirk-patrick (S): 168-pound class, Captain Bradford (H) vs. Vanarnan...