Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Notwithstanding the smallness of the audience something told me that at last I had the opportunity to stir them up, to move the crowd. Stepping to the platform I began...
...that the student goes into them through natural inclination; he is his own compulsion. A man without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with the tactics of the Missouri mule "skinner", to drive the student back to his studies...
...House. They oppose any attempt to alter the present tax law at the next session of Congress. Senator Smoot expressed his sympathy with the President's suggestion, but regarded it as " premature." The anxiety of the two Senators is obviously due to the political unwisdom of such a move. If any tax measure is brought up in Congress, it would fall among "radicals," as pointed out in TIME last week, with the result that the President would be faced with an entire and undesired revision of the Administration's tax program...
...getting rid of the concessions granted to the French and British." It seems that the Turks, adepts at procrastination, have been playing for time until the psychological moment arrived to ratify the Chester Concessions. It arrived; and the Turks will go back to Lausanne stronger than ever. The Turkish move has, however, revealed Lord Curzon and his rôle of injured innocence in a most unfavorable light; for, more than once, he emphatically denied that Great Britain was in Iraq for oil: now it appears that Britain is not wholly disinterested...
...Greek Government issued a strong denunciation of the Turkish order prohibiting the American Near East Relief to move foodstuffs from warehouses without paying full customs duties, which have recently been raised 500%. It is stated that the cost of this tax would be $1,000 a day on the basis of 30,000 rations, which, in round figures, represents the number of Christian refugees requiring food in Constantinople...