Word: shuddered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Legion convention shook Boston to the marrow of its Brahmin bones. The car-tipping and bonfires, the water-bombs zooming from windows had moved the Harvard Crimson to shudder, "worse than a drunken football crowd." Local rowdies helped tear up the town in the boozy wake of World War I Legionnaires...
Astronomers believe that meteors are the debris of broken comets, and they shudder to think what would happen if a comet head itself, approaching at some 45 miles per second, were to crash into the earth. Astronomers' guesstimate of the chances: once in 100 million years (age of the earth: two billion years...
...although the editors still shudder at the quality of the first-draft copy that arrives at their desks during a four-day heat wave, TIME is organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer...
Modern schooling makes him shudder. Curricula, for one thing, are much too cluttered. Argues Sir Richard: "Education prospers by exclusion. Overcrowding in education, as in housing, turns the school into an intellectual slum." He would have young students concentrate on two or three subjects as mental disciplines, and leave most history and literature for adults. The boy of 14 (school-leaving age of 80% of Britons) lacks the "experience of life" he needs to get the most out of these studies...
...sculpturesque poses, haling deliveries, and indecorous tiltings of the head. Only William Whitman, a last-minute substitute in the role of Creon, approached the adequate. As Directress Mary Manning Howe said not quite inclusively enough in her program notes, "Purists and scholars will, no doubt, find much to shudder at in our production...