Word: shook
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Royal Indian Navy in Bombay harbor crashed out a 31-gun salute.* Shore batteries replied with 31 more reports. Under the dockside Arch of Bombay, called the "Gateway of India," waited British bigwigs and a selection of resplendent Indian princes. For hours Lord Linlithgow, though not yet officially Viceroy, shook hands with various delegations. Finally, with his lady and his daughters Anne, 22, Joan, 20, and Doreen, 16, he rode between lines of the viceregal scarlet-coated bodyguard to Government House at Malabar Point...
...Kansas City last week with his son John Jr., a senior in Cornell's School of Architecture, President-elect Spaeth shook hands with the trustees, showed he felt quite at home in the open spaces by pulling off his coat, settling down to talk about his new job. Acutely aware of itself as a burgeoning cultural centre, Kansas City chafed for 20 years at the fact that it was the biggest U. S. city without a university of its own. After a number of false starts, a non-municipal, non-sectarian university was chartered in 1928. Three years...
...years ago Harvard's Physiologist Gregory Goodwin Pincus placed a rabbit's ova in a bottle with a rabbit's sperm, shook them together for 20 minutes. Next he placed the fertilized ova in the fallopian tube of a rabbit doe who 33 days later bore a litter of six healthy bunnies. They were no kin to her. She was simply their host-mother (TIME, March...
...delusion that Smith was a Congressman." Washington's Representative Martin Smith woefully complained: "I certainly hope we'll do something to curb the activities of these lobbyists. There ought to be some way of identifying them." Utah's Representative Abe Murdock, still another of "the boys," shook his head: "I guess we were just taken...
...eager volunteer came around early in the campaign: snaggle-toothed Representative J. Hamilton Fish of New York. No candidate's dream of the ideal political ally is "Ham" Fish, the butt of many a Congressional jest, the ardent runner-down-of-Reds. The statesman from Idaho warily shook Mr. Fish's large, aristocratic hand, accepted his services but offered him no official campaign post...