Word: shudders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...interesting to see what Stalin's government is doing to commercialize and make scientifically minded a people whose past has been deeply rooted in the soil. One sees how an agrarian Russia has been pulled into a mighty vortex,--one whose ceaselessly grinding wheels make an American shudder and think how pleasant serfdom must have been for the Russians compared with this new system. Yet, in observing the expressions on these laborers' faces, one is led to believe they are perfectly happy and satisfied with their lot. Ten minutes seems much too short a time to witness what is happening...
...going to be a long earthquake. At 6:06 p. m. (Pacific Time) a second shudder ran under California's coastal apron, from the winter & summer colony at Santa Barbara to the port of San Diego, 200 mi. south. The old Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Building buckled, collapsed. Two warehouses fell apart. Into frenzied suburban streets slipped the walls of small apartment buildings, leaving rows of cheap bedrooms suddenly and immodestly bare. A housewife scrambled through her kitchen, fell over her cat, broke her kneecap. Panic-stricken motorists ran down pedestrians, ran into each other...
...noted with some regret that Harvard's alleged gentlemen have stooped to the rather common practice of muck-raking. A threatened expose promises the breakdown of the Yale morale for should the integrity of Yale's denizens of the law be questioned, we shudder to calculate the consequences. It is felt that student opinion, for this reason and for loyalty's sake, should stand unitedly behind the "grand old organization," and plans should be formulated to back the Campus Gendarmes with heart and soul...
...great hull plowed into mountainous grey-streaked combers and a 60-m. p. h. head wind. Speed was cut to 7 knots, just enough to maintain steerage but so vast is the Majestic that first-class passengers remained in comparative comfort. At lunch time she creaked violently twice, a shudder ran down the ship. Few passengers noticed...
...Hoover campaign of 1932 will probably be long remembered for the extremes to which the President, justified or not, went in his effort to keep a grip on the Federal Government. At Des Moines he sent a shudder through the financial world by declaring that the U. S. had been "within two weeks" of going off the gold standard last winter. In New York he seriously predicted that a Democratic victory would "crack the timbers of the Constitution" and cause "grass to grow in the streets'' of many an industrial city. In his West Coast speech last week...