Word: shook
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jerry, for the school,' said Milton, and thereupon the two friends, with their eyes shining in high resolve, shook each other's hands in staunch agreement...
...Your wife!" he heard, shook his weak head and frowned...
...Boston any decent citizens?" The answer of the New Republic, where this question has recently been raised, is apparently in the negative. Boston's election shook, its various political scandals, its banking irregularities, are raked out into the sunlight and made to appear typical of Boston's public affairs during the past few years. The police strike, too, is dragged out of the retirement it was beginning to earn, and colored with recent cases of constabulary misdeeds, it is set up as the vane that should have shown which way the wind was blowing several seasons ago. The conclusion reached...
...main danger to the three historic universities of the east--Harvard, Yale and Princeton--is the danger of becoming inbred. Harvard, it would seem, definitely met that peril some years ago, when it shook off many of its Boston inhibitions and, through broadening its entrance examinations, made a clear bid for matriculants from high schools all over the country. Princeton, with its recent limitation of enrollment, may be just about to face the real danger of localization of influence. Yale, through calling to its presidency James Rowland Angell, a graduate of the University of Michigan and the former dean...
...stories, none the less so because the visible proofs of their truth were always lacking. Long and hot would be the resulting arguments; the scoffers declaring that the supposed monster was only an unusually large whale a school of dolphins, or a mass of drifting kelp. But the believers shook their heads, asserting that no one could tell what the sea might hide...