Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those once satisfied with it. The concert Thursday appears, Janus-like, at a time when the past shows no little success, and the future augurs well. The colleges, and through them much of America are growing up to good music. Inevitably they must strike false notes as they move, but still they progress, and their pace has been considerably accelerated by such undertakings as Doctor Davison...
...valley of a great and ancient river lie the cities of Cairo, Delta, Thebes, Karnak. They are prosperous and flourishing communities. Their inhabitants move briskly about in Fords, listen in on radio concerts, attend movies, use electric refrigerators and high-grade plumbing, eat trademarked breakfast foods. The river is not the Nile, but the Mississippi. The district is "Little Egypt," sunny farming district in southwest Illinois. "Little Egypt," as such, got national publicity last fortnight when Editor Allen T. Spivey of the East St. Louis (Ill.) Daily Journal, loaded his Congressional ambitions and campaign speeches into an airplane labelled...
Commented President Francis R. Henderson of the New York Rubber Exchange: "Baldwin has made a bold move. But in my opinion he has made a move that will, in the long run, be a good thing for the industry as a whole. Lower prices for rubber will encourage its increased use, and increasing consumption will take care of the entire output of the Far East...
Waves of reform often stir a froth of laughter as they move forward. Lindsey's reform can be criticized in that it seeks to remove immorality by changing morality; also it can be said that, to most people, the two indispensable adjuncts of matrimony are child bearing and the permanence which springs from it, neither of which the companionate theory emphasizes...
...banks of the Charles, nor the board walks of the Yard may they soon be removed nor even the spirit of that white, cold and immovable bust that gazes so silent and steadfastly out through the halls of the Fogg, far out into what one knows not, will move the Vagabond to pursue his search of the things which one rendered unto the mind. In fact, about the only thing which will move him is the 1 o'clock to New York, and he advises all his readers to let this beneficent influence effect them...