Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monday night, however, the first act proved a trifle slow. The stern, undemonstrative nature of the Doctor, his devotion to the Mannering family, the "no attachment" clause in the contract with the German University-all the necessary facts, in short-are brought out, but the act falled to move with just that sureness and "drive" which are needed to get the material over to the audience. There is a bit of interesting action toward the end, and the curtain could hardly be bettered...
...desk and create Utopias ad lib. We must remember that the law stating that momentum equals mass times velocity applies as well in politics as in physics, and that a man speaking for a million voters, the leader of a great party, can not always move as rapidly as a man speaking only for himself. The power of the organization of which he is the head gives tremendous strength to his movements, but its weight will prevent him from advancing very fast. No man who took part in the effort fifteen or twenty years ago to achieve an intelligent coaching...
...opened,--and the survivor would rule the country! Possibly the Irish may reach a point where they find Bismarck's suggestion the only possible way out. He is supposed to have said. "There is absolutely nothing to this Irish Question! If I had the say-so, I should simply move all the Dutch to Ireland and all the Irish to Holland,--and then cut the dikes!" At all events, the Irish are now masters of their own destiny, and the world on this St. Patrick's day pauses to wish them god-speed...
...which hampers free speech. Toward the close of the lecture President Atwood entered the hall and shortly announced that the meeting was dismissed. When his announcement had no effect he had the lights turned out, thereby abruptly ending the lecture. Students and professors alike have strongly objected to the move...
...America now enjoys a high degree of prestige as a result of the Conference. She stepped to the front then in a manner that took the delegates' breath away. At first they were aghast at the suddenness of the move, but they were not slow to applaud enthusiastically the representative of the nation that chose to lead toward peace, and to back him to the limit. The present question is--What next? Will the United States follow up the success of the past three months? If the senate now cuts our army and navy in half the whole world will...