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Word: shook (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshmen were justly indignant at this answer, and at an indignation meeting of the class some rashly shook their umbrellas in the air and denounced the girls as mean things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Letter. | 2/1/1887 | See Source »

...McCosh's letter shook the placidity that generally reigns at Harvard, and it was at once decided that the matter was far too serious to be settled by a secretary of arrangements. President Eliot took it in hand, and he wrote to Dr. McCosh in a dual capacity as President of Harvard University and as an intimate friend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Holmes's Hard Words. | 11/18/1886 | See Source »

...number of graduates shook hands with President Cleveland as he was driving through the yard yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/9/1886 | See Source »

Yesterday dawned inauspiciously, and when the thousands that looked forward expectantly to the events of the day, awoke, they shook their heads in grave fear on seeing the threatening clouds overhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The 250th Anniversary. | 11/7/1886 | See Source »

...recitation room in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory shook with the cheers and applause of the freshmen who could not refrain their enthusiasm when they were shown the annual toy of electrified HARVARD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/4/1886 | See Source »

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