Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Arch Coleman is a quiet Quaker. Fifty-two and fair, he walks, hunts, fishes for diversion. He owned the City Coal Co. at Minneapolis until he was appointed postmaster there seven years ago. Last fortnight he thought he was going to move to Washington to sit in the House of Representatives. Last week he did find himself in Washington, sitting not at the Capitol in a mere Representative's seat but up in the Hoover sub-Cabinet. Helping hands at the White House had straightened out a bad political mess in his favor...
...sinking two lifeboats in the process. Capt. Morris and kidnaped Governor Fruytier were left to return to Curaçao or to go anywhere else they pleased. Brash Capt. Urbina attacked the garrison of Vela de Coro, fatally wounded its commander, Gen. Gabriel Lale, and prepared to move forward against Caracas and the formidable ex-Dictator, General Juan Vicente Gomez (TIME...
...less the writers who in their own day supplied the reading matter for the larger part of the book buying public. The eighteenth century is the period of English literature where Harvard's position is challenged most dangerously by Yale, its closest rival among University libraries, so that every move which adds to its resources in this century is particularly welcome...
Princeton. Convening in St. Paul, the 141st Presbyterian General Assembly settled the four-year fight over the management of Princeton Theological Seminary, greatest Presbyterian seminary in the U. S. Over the protests of Fundamentalists, who feared the move would unduly strengthen the hand of liberal Dr. Joseph Ross Stevenson, the president, it was voted to vest control of the seminary in a single joint board instead of the present dual control of trustees and directors. Those in favor insisted they were doing "nothing whatever which will tend to alter the distinctive doctrinal position which the seminary has maintained throughout...
...Long himself would not be unwilling to change his opinion of Harvard undergraduates were he to listen "to their comments on the CRIMSON article." They do not "dismiss it as the ranting of some addle-pate who has been reading some cynical books," but rather as the initial move in an attempt to clear away the "War Posters" from the walls of Widener...