Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...move is of the nature of an experiment and will be given a week's trial starting today. Instead of requiring all single scullers to be back by 6 o'clock as is now the case, the students in the Graduate Schools may take out shells until 6.30 o'clock, provided they are returned by 7 o'clock...
...laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently no insurmountable difficulty stands in the path of progress, it seems but reasonable to expect that minor details can and should be arranged to provide for the interests of no small number of students. A move to bring longer laboratory hours to Harvard will but increase the value of the material additions being made for the study of science...
...eternal, they stand in their little sentry boxes: two coal-black horses, currycombed to satin smoothness; two six-foot troopers in jackboots, silver breastplates, plumed helmets. Not even when irreverent trippers tempt the chargers with raw carrots, or drop peanut shells into the troopers' boot tops, do they move...
Last week one of these living statues did move, an event sufficiently startling to be cabled to the U. S. Before the astonished eyes of a busload of Baedekered tourists, a strange expression crept over the face of one of the horses. His knees slowly sagged. He collapsed. With a dreadful clatter of ironmongery, the sentry lost his sabre and plumed helmet, and scratched his gleaming breastplate...
...friend of half the aristocracy of Europe, Frau Anna Sacher is an Austrian butcher's daughter, who ran, until last week, Vienna's stately Hotel Sacher. Short and fat, not unlike a dignified Emil Jannings in a curled wig, Frau Sacher used to move through the ancient corridors of her hotel, puffing on a long black cheroot, followed by two fat, asthmatic bulldogs. She never argued with a careless waiter or chambermaid. She boxed their ears soundly and passed...