Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hooverites said that the Ohio Victory "clinched the nomination." The only danger they could foresee was some anti-Hoover move by Non-Candidate Dawes so upsetting as to precipitate a Coolidge stampede. If Ohio had not "clinched" the thing, said the Hooverites, then Indiana would clinch it, next week. There the local champion to be defeated is Candidate Watson, large of stomach, small of eye, a smooth political mechanic. Watsonism in Indiana was considered even harder to beat than was the Willis phenomenon in Ohio. But two things, besides the Hooverizing of Ohio, happened last week to weaken Watsonism...
...Kansas Democrats, supposedly friendly to Candidate Reed, unexpectedly instructed their 20 delegates for U. S. Representative William A^ Ayres of Wichita. Though Candidate Reed remained Kansas' second fiddle, Smith men interpreted the naming of Candidate Ayres as a move to let Kansas clamber gracefully aboard the Smith bandwagon...
C.McK. Norton '29 was switched by Coach E.J. Brown '96 from his regular bow oar to the No. 4 seat and Amyas Ames '28 was promoted to Norton's place from the Third crew. A.T. Gray '30 will move back from No. 4 to fill Cushman's position. Coach Brown stated that Norton would remain for certain in the No. 4 seat. The others are liable to change...
...circumstances are that Frank Billings Kellogg has rather cleverly out-maneuvred Aristide Briand at a game of diplomatic chess which has been going on for nine months. M. Briand made the first move in good faith when he proposed to sign a treaty outlawing war simply between France and the U. S. (TIME, July...
...tradition-surrounded home of John Hicks, one of the Minute Men of Revolutionary days, is to be moved from its present site on 64 Dunster Street this summer to make room for the projected University gymnasium. The small Colonial house has occupied its corner location for 166 years and the Harvard building authorities, who own the structure, plan to move it intact to adjacent property, if place can be made...