Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made up"--and the easiest excuse is, of course, that the occupant rose too late. This is to protect the "goody" from being discharged for laziness. So the persecuted student may breathe freely once more and seek his downy coach without fear that his "morning after" snores will shake Olympus. The little white card which alone bears the testimony of his delinquency will never meet the eye of Dean or Regent; but will be efficiently buried forever in the dusty oblivion of lower Massachusetts...
...become unfortunately somewhat class-biased of late, nothing could do it better than the continued imprisonment of a kindly old man like Debs, while men of the stripe of Franz Von Rintelen, German spy and bomb-plotter, are released. Nothing is better calculated to arouse the desire to shake the control of the owners of the means of production over our public life than such a spectacular example of the results of this control...
...Vocational Training by considering a plan very similar to that contained in the Rogers Bill. No report was made on the plan until the last day of the session and the bill was lost. Consequently a whole summer intervened before this new bill was introduced. Unless Congress will shake off its present lethargy of "politics" and open its eyes to popular appeal this bill will suffer a similar fate...
...soon face a crisis from within. So far they have not been confronted with anything dangerous; but it is within the power of the members of the Constituent Assembly to start a unified opposition under the leadership that the Russian people need, which shall on able them to shake off Boishevism forever. In future histories the Paris Conference may well be indicated as the beginning of the Soviets' downfall...
When the scrimmage began, Humphrey and Hamilton held down the halfback positions previously held by Churchill and Owen. Buell, instead of Johnson, was running the team at quarter with Captain Horween playing fullback as usual. The shake-up in the line resulted in shifting Tolbert over to guard, displacing Brown. Eastman stepped into the empty tackle position, Kane was reinstated in his old berth at end in place of Crocker. Havemeyer, Woods, Faxon and Gaston retained their regular assignments...