Word: shook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planck attacked the problem in a new way and arrived at a revolutionary idea that shook the world of physics: that energy is actually radiated in small packages, not continuously, as everybody thought...
That night Robert Gordon Sproul (rhymes with jowl) put on a boiled shirt and shook hands with 3,000 of his new charges at a party in the women's gymnasium. Next day he and Mrs. Sproul boarded the streamlined Southern Pacific Lark for the second of his eight campuses, Cal's jealous younger sister, the University of California at Los Angeles, to go through the routine again. He still had a long way to go" to cover all his domain. Says Bob Sproul: "Sure it's tough, but I do it purposely. I do it with...
Next the village policeman arrived. He ordered Dennis not to interfere. Dennis telephoned the local office of the National Farmers' Union. At the other end of the line Secretary Gordon Smith shook his head and rang Area Secretary E. R. Benson for advice...
...shook more hands than he could remember. He went sightseeing. He reminisced at every turn. Shown a 22-year-old portrait of himself in Kitchener's City Hall, he quipped: "I didn't look any better then than I do now." Once, a farmer who had known him for years edged up, called out: "Hello, Billy. How the hell are you?" The P.M. grinned and said he was fine. At a picnic in Waterloo Park, a crowd of 4,000 passed before his canopied stand while a local functionary kept intoning: "If you've had a look...
...crunchies and some fish and chips me cousin got me and pickled pigs' trotters, they told me I was encouragin' the mice with me larder. Larder. Impedence. I said there wouldn't be anny mice in that hospital with all the CATS in APERRONS. That shook...