Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Protestant, but I think the Methodists ought to move out of Washington and the Catholics ought to keep...
...deep guttural oration issued from the cavern of his throat. He did not move a muscle when the bottle of champagne tinkled and exploded. Afterwards Old Paul von Hindenburg rode away to begin his vacation, hunting chamois in Bavaria. But Germans remembered his words...
...Fashions move in cycles, can be predicted...
...been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued by the Government's Industrial Transfer Board that there are now at least 200,000 "permanently unemployed" British coal miners who must either be transferred to other employment or continue indefinitely half-starved upon the dole. A most drastic move to prevent further increase in unemployment was made, last week, quite independently of the Government, by the British Railway Managers Association and the Great National Unions of locomotive engineers, firemen, railway men and railway clubs. Jointly and solemnly they covenanted that for the next twelvemonth...
...Uncle Leopold went wickedly a-travel-ing when he was Crown Prince, to India, to China, to Japan and home around Africa, with a momentous visit to Mother Congo. Memories of Congoland germinated in the shrewd brain of Uncle Leopold and flowered when he became King. The master move of his long and wily reign was to call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these good works was to be generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy...