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Word: shivers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quite reassured. Alberto Salinas Carranza, chief of Mexico's aviation, sent a message to Sarabia by air mail: "I shiver at hearing that you intend to return from Washington nonstop. . . . Continue flying with your head and do not permit your heart to intervene. Conserve yourself for our pride, the satisfaction of your family and the envy of the birds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: I Shiver | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Planned and produced to earn the plaudits of those who shiver with ecstasy at mere mention of the word "Broadway," "Broadway Melody of 1938," current University offering, may draw the harsher criticism of those who want something more than a hodge-podge even in their musicals...

Author: By M. F. E., | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...Below 83° the capillary blood vessels have constricted as much as they can to prevent the radiation of heat from the skin and the body begins to shiver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Academicians at Rochester | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...tendency to hold any disciplinary center in awe. Whether this is the result of grim lessons in the high school principal's office, or the natural human aversion to a confab with the "boss" matters not; the awe is a fact, and many men in this University shiver at any official summons. Such an attitude is incorrect. Student tuition and alumni endowment pay dean's salaries, and their proper duties are corrective and advisory rather than disciplinary. Moreover, to keep in touch with student trends and sentiments, deans must keep in contact with their charges; they obtain information in this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELCOME MAT IS OUT | 10/14/1937 | See Source »

...glad the records were out at last. Said he: "It was a cowardly trick and a plot designed to injure me." Lawyer Ellis, Reporter Sweet and Detective Gilmore announced that District Attorney Carroll had censored the records before making them public but, having caused scores of Colorado politicians to shiver in their boots for half-a-year, the vigilantes slyly added: "No one has ever bothered to ask but as a matter of fact we never contended the microphone records, outside of disclosing the duplicity of politicians and their faithlessness, contained evidence of felonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLORADO: Sly Vigilantes | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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