Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundreds of thousands of acres of land were needed to furnish next year's wheat supply, the exact portion of the world best suited for that purpose would be so used. An agricultural army, recruited at whatever wages were necessary to secure the requisite numbers, would move out from the cities in the Spring, perform the necessary work, proceed to another area to do a different kind of work there, etc. Mr. Gillette calculates that an army of 5,000,000 men properly directed could do all the world's farming in six months of the year. There...
...blind Member of Parliament rose to move the second reading of a bill to make blind people of 30 or over eligible for old-age pensions. Hardly had he sat down when there arose a War-maimed ex-warrior to move the second reading of a bill to make compulsory the employment by business firms of a fixed percentage of disabled ex-service men. The House gave second reading to both bills...
...York end the receiving apparatus consists of an electric lamp behind a thin metal wall, placed in a strong magnetic field. The wall forms one side of a narrow slot through which the light passes. The fluctuations in the current passing through the magnetic field move the metal wall back and forth according to their intensity, making the slot wider or narrower. The light beam, passing through the slot, falls on the revolving cylinder, printing broader or narrower lines of light on the film. With each revolution the cylinder is jerked 1/65th of an inch to the right...
...National Woman's Party: "I returned from Europe. Said I to reporters: 'It was embarrassing to hear our Government discussed by foreigners. . . . Some of our Senators are a disgrace. Some of them are not even physically capable of being in the Senate. We women certainly would move to keep invalids out of the Upper House.' " Alvin M. Owsley, attorney of Dallas, onetime National Commander of the American Legion: "The Dallas legion post announced that I would seek the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination, if endorsed by the Texas State Convention. Said I: 'With the help and advice...
...discovery that the United States government, recent sponsor of disarmament, and self-proclaimed opponent of militarism, is sponsor of Citizens Military Training Camps may conceivably give pacifistic minds a shock. What would seem a grotesquely paradoxical situation is in truth merely an excellent and intelligent educational move...