Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scientists and teachers shook their heads. Mr. Bryan was dead and at least for the time they as a body declined to enter upon animadversion, but some of them privately compared the Scopes trial, not with the trial in Pilate's court, but with a trial in the court of Athens, where a teacher, accused (like Mr. Scopes) of corrupting the youth by teaching things contrary to law and disrespectful to the gods, had (like Mr Scopes) refused to deny his action, but defended it only by saying that he had taught the truth, which was, in his eyes...
...shook hands; Bryan consumed his sundae and departed, exuding benevolence...
Tottering Empire" is perhaps a facile expression. Austro-Hungary, had there been no war, might have survived several more centuries; for federative reforms were much in the mind of the murdered Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The War, as Count Burián so graphically describes, shook the heterogeneous nation to its foundations; defeat completed the destruction...
...year ago, occurred the abominable assassination of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 25 et seq.), which shook the kingdom to its foundations and struck such a blow at the prestige of Benito Mussolini that he is only now recovering from...
...Dzerzhinsky, Chairman of the Supreme Economic Council, smiled at Georg Tchitcherin, Bolshevik Foreign Commissar. He then pulled his fountain pen from his pocket with a sharp, metallic click, unscrewed the top, shook it gently, scribbled something that passed for his signature. Tchitcherin countersigned. The Bolshevik Government had signed a rich manganese concession for 20 years to W. A. Harriman & Co. of Manhattan...