Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Radical Students. Psychological tests applied to students at Columbia, Dartmouth and Yale showed that the former were the most radical, the last the most conservative; also that radicals, compared with conservatives of equal intelligence and family environment, were quicker in reasoning powers and better able to shake off habits.-Dr. H. T. Moore, Dartmouth College...
...thought is too terrible to dwell upon. With grateful tears John Harvard can only shake his head and murmur: "Thank you, George, but it cannot...
...been for that great shout, Referee Tommy Sheridan might have had good cause to shake for the safety of his own well-padded ribs. Never was a title awarded by a closer decision. Of the 15 rounds, six were indubitably Goldstein's, six as indubitably Martin's. In the dubious three, Goldstein was heady, agile, defensive; Martin eager, fresh, intrepid. Hard had Champion Goldstein pecked in the third and fourth, to no avail. His rights impaired Martin's jaw, failed to touch his spirit. Discouraged, Goldstein played safe, boxed, lost the decision. Yet not a few smoky...
...undue fatigue, the royal child was relegated to the beautiful seclusion of luxuriant palace gardens. Rarely did he appear on the streets, never was he taught anything that might help him later on to understand his people. Under these circumstances, ominous reverberations of public discontent again began to shake the kingdom...
...does prove that the evil is not new, is it any less real for having become chronic? Perhaps the student is too close to the issue to venture a great analysis, but this, at least, is certain: many an undergraduate who takes his college work in all seriousness cannot shake off the haunting question "After all, is it worth while...