Word: tremoring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ague set in north of Boston, People rushed from their houses in Marblehead and Salem. Slates fell off the roofs at Gloucester and pictures off the" walls a. Swampscott. Bric-a-brac fell from shelves in Medford, and antimacassars were disarranged in Maiden. After 10 to 90 seconds of tremor, New England settled down, though her people were still agitated...
...scorching drive, Mrs. Hurd hooked into the fence. At the 15th, Glenna won the leg she so wanted. A newspaper ac count spoke of Miss Virginia Palmer, of Shenecossett, whom Glenna whipped 7 and 6 in the first round, as a "frightened opponent." Few, indeed, face Glenna without a tremor...
Halfway through the period Austin duplicated his performance, this time with the support of the entire forward line, and the score stood two to nothing in favor of the Crimson. At this point the visitors braced and individual sallies by Van Vliet and Yates kept the crowd in a tremor. The Harvard defense proved impregnable, however, and halfway through the period Coach Winsor called off his entire first-string combination. Hamilton lost its best chance to score shortly afterwards when Yates broke loose and passed to Nicholson. The latter's shot missed fire only because of Newell's unusual alertness...
Through his interpreter, Mr. Leitner further discussed his gift. Thought transference through a light touch of the hand, which is called Leitnerism, he distinguished from the well-known Cumberlandism which operates through full contact with locked arms, thus enabling the medium to read the tremor of the muscles. Leitnerism, in addition, uses the free hand to seek the object, whereas, in the case of Cumberlandism, the object is sought with the hand on which rests the subject's hand...
...Embassy staff, sprained his wrist by jumping from a window of the Imperial Hotel, 20 feet from the ground. Linden Wells of Los Angeles fractured his ankle in running out into the open. Most of the guests of the Imperial Hotel fled into the corridors at the first tremor, others rushed out into the streets with their clothes and dressed there. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, present in the Imperial, "showed great calmness." Kermit Roosevelt, in Kioto, missed the thrilling experience...