Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little Flower), in St. Peter's Church, Rome. The ceremony began at 8 o'clock in the morning and ended at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; but long before, at 4 o'clock in the morning, street cars, taxis and private automobiles began to move a vast number of pilgrims to St. Peter's. Nearly 70,000 persons crowded into the basilica, being the greatest number that ever assembled there since the coronation of Pope. Pius X, 22 years...
Minds battled like searchlights fencing in a night sky. Reti of Czecho-Slovakia, who can play 25 games blindfolded, made an "oversight" which cost him a game in a few moves. Marshall of the U.S. held his own. But there was one man who played as if an immobile, enormous shape, looming unseen behind him, directed with Gargantuan fingers the movement of his smaller hands upon the Lilliputian kings. Once, it is true, he made a misplay, uncovered his queen. The watchers sucked in their breath. Surely now this Merlin was done for. But his opponent, Spielmann...
...These include being spun round in a revolving chair to simulate spinning in the air, walking blindfold in a straight line, breathing rarefied air corresponding to an altitude of 20,000 ft. or so. Army Air Service men see in this an outcome of the Mitchell controversy and a move to forestall a United Air Service. They stress in particular the fact that not more than 30 or 40% of the young men will be able to pass the physical tests. Colonel Mitchell goes so far as to call the scheme "bunk...
Chancellor Churchill's move for immediate gold resumption (TIME, May 11, BUSINESS, COMMONWEALTH) was criticized last week by enemies in Parliament on the grounds that it would flood Britain with gold, and that it would shackle Britain to the U. S. in the event of heavy gold exports. After pointing out the contradictory nature of these criticisms, Mr. Churchill has declared that gold resumption shackled England only to present realities-a pointed and adequate retort. Already over ?1,000,000 in gold has been exported from England since assumption of the gold standard, with more to follow...
...years, the firm occupied quarters at the corner of Water and Fletcher Sts., Manhattan. In 1855, expansion forced it to move into a larger location at Fulton and Dutch Sts., where it has remained for the past 70 years. Now continued expansion has again compelled a move, and this time the firm's executive offices and departments of its Manhattan branch will shift several miles uptown to West 47th St. near Fifth Avenue...