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Word: move (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where it can again be regarded as a sport. But I believe that it is just as well to add that in the informal discussion which followed the passage of the resolution, many members expressed the hope that the program would succeed. It was generally conceded that this move on your part was constructive, ambitious, and courageous, and showed that the CRIMSON is no longer merely a purveyor of news, but a useful instrument for encouraging and moulding progressive policies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Harvard Club Approves | 12/10/1925 | See Source »

...door, keeps out the trashy ones, lets in the hungry ones, bows to the haughty ones, spreads his smile. Last week, while he stood displaying his buttons, a taxicab snarled down the street and stopped before him. Doorman Johnson helped two people out, waited for the taxi to move along. Its driver, one Edward Cohen, seemed inclined to loiter, to dawdle. "Hump yo'self, Jew boy," said Doorman Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doorman | 12/7/1925 | See Source »

...very soon. Such a change would permit the New York Federal Reserve Bank to lift its rate to 4% without causing a flow of gold from Britain to this country-a most undesirable development in the British effort to hold sterling exchange at par. In England the Boston rate-move is thought to foreshadow an advance by the Bank of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Boston Reserve Bank Rate | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

Chirped irrepressibles: "If the Prince of Wales would only marry and move out of St. James's Palace, the Duke of York might have that! Croaked others, "The Queen Mother will be 81 in December. Marlborough House and Sandringham Hall may soon be vacant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Houses | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

...Thaw's hand began to move steadily, cautiously toward his hip pocket. A woman at a nearby table caught a cry to her lips; a fat man upset his drinking glass. Editor Payne sat quiet, tense. In the emergency, his courage was supreme. The slayer's arm moved. He drew from his pocket a handkerchief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Back to Back | 11/16/1925 | See Source »

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