Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...triumph to his credit: a method of converting sugar cane wastes to paper pulp in twelve minutes v. nine hours for the old process. Though he suffered from heart trouble and had to lead a strictly regulated life for the past 20 years, he said: "Still other ventures are afoot, and the days are not long enough for me to take advantage of all the opportunities...
Other ambitious Red Chinese plans afoot...
...conception of the world . . . a system of thinking . . . a basis for civilization." The church-centered histories, biographies and novels that have poured from him since have contributed much to the new stirrings of religion in anticlerical France, where, he feels, "there is a new kind of Catholic movement afoot. It's not organized, but deep...
...Hamm have been very closely paired since the fall. Each man has defeated the other once in three sets, and both of them have fast, powerful, and, at times erratic games. Weld and Wood form a curious contrast, with Weld's slow, accurate game pitted against Wood's speed afoot and his aggressive tactics...
...crusade is afoot. Perhaps it is a conspiracy. It started when a couple of people sent bills to the State Legislature. But that didn't mean much because everybody does that. Then, four days ago Richard I. Furbush, President of the State Senate, wrote a letter to Governor Herter. "I feel, Governor," the senator spoke out, "that there are so many persons throughout the country who are singing the praises of Massachusetts that an opportunity should be given them to put it to words and music...