Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...director of the University choir. The carols to be sung this year are "The First Nool"; "Wassail Song", by Vaughan Williams; "Chanson Joyouse", by F. A. Geraert; "Bring a Torch, Jennette, Isabella", an old French carol harmonized by Nurm; "Christians Song of the 14th Century", by Bodenschatz; "Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep", a Besancon carol; "Silent Night, Holy Night"; and "Hallolujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
...deflation progresses. There is still a long way to go. But the biggest part of that way will be covered when people,--the ordinary workers and business people of our blind nation stir in their philosophy of economic complacency which the bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
...quiet corner of a large white house, two men smile, shake hands, sit down together for a friendly discussion of an urgent problem...
...bigger, more dangerous idea. He disappeared; sometimes not even his family knew where he was. He visited prominent Abolitionists in the East, begged money for his desperate scheme. About the gist of it he kept a close mouth. His sons feared him, distrusted his mysterious plans, tried to shake free of him; but when the day came most of them were with...
...first to offer to shake hands...