Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands with Mayor C. Clarence Neslen of Salt Lake City. In Denver, 50 miles away, citizens rejoiced. Some thought that the six-mile Moffat Tunnel, longest railroad bore in the U. S., would soon be ready for snorting locomotives. They were wrong. Only the smaller pioneer bore,† running parallel with...
...President shook hands with 1,220 citizens in 27 minutes. Some were Women's Christian Temperance Unionists; the rest, insurance-sellers...
...galleries shook with fear, whilst the stumps in the Potomac River bobbed up and down in unison with his vociferous periods." [Laughter...
...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...
...last time I saw 'Teddy' Roosevelt," continued Freddy, "was when he was President of the United States. He had been lecturing at the Exchange Club in Boston. I was waiting for him at the curb when he came out. He shook hands with...