Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Strange, affecting stories are told of their inseparability, their confidence, understanding of each other. Every move seems the result of joint thought and decision. It is thought that O. P. usually takes the lead, but if O. P. may speak for M. J. so may M. J. speak for O. P. With two minds made up, they are difficult to swerve. It is gossiped that even their personal checkbook is a joint affair, either signature being valid...
...This move, if it has or is to be made, is considered a most radical educational innovation and will be watched closely by other colleges in the country. It is designed to give students more time for personal investigation and research as well as more time to prepare for examinations. The plan is used in English universities, but there it is a product or evolution, and whether or not it will succeed when superimposed on an educational system which has previously been somewhat paternalistic must be shown by experiment...
...Thuggish method of forcing passage through a throng. The hands are held clenched close to the chest, the elbows flexed and projected stiffly to each side of the torso. To move forward one jabs bystanders with the elbows and, as they wince, sidles through the opening...
Grizzled old warrior that he undoubtedly is, Senator Beaver has been almost equalled in zeal by some of his contemporaries. In Kansas there is a proposed law against mince pie, and in Oregon a move has been made against posters showing "handsome, attractive young men engaged in smoking", and thus tempting the youth of the state to do likewise...
...embarking on another line of business six months ago. Henceforth it shall be his endeavor to make this a thoroughly independent journal, treating all parties and political movements with judicial fairness and candor, but counting the favor and deprecating the wrath of no one." But immediately there was a move to oust him from control. "My misfortunes do not come 'single files, but in battalions.' And so many of my old friends hate me for what I have done that life seems too hard to bear." On Nov. 29, aged 61, he died, some think of a broken heart...