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Word: move (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not need learning or many brains to make a fair runner, although to make a good racer brains are a prime requisite. From early youth one is confronted with running to the drug store etc, but when one has to outfoot someone that can make his less move as fast as you can, brains are needed, and the difference in brains is often the difference in great runners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANYONE CAN BE A TRACK MAN SAYS E. L. FARRELL | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...necessary reorientation of collegiate athletics has manifested itself in several ways. President Lowell's annual report to the Overseers commended Mr. Bingham's tactics as a courageous move towards that end and reiterated that athletics for all is Harvard's sport policy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FURTHER ENLIGHTENMENT | 1/21/1927 | See Source »

...Alumni Bulletin is well founded. Mr. Seymour, Secretary to the University for Information, was quoted last evening in the Transcript to the effect that the University had no plan whatsoever to purchase President Eliot's house. This to say the least, is misleading. There is a definite move, set on foot by several graduates, to give money to the University for the purchase. It is for that, and that reason only, that the house has not yet been sold. It is inconceivable that a plan which has so many delightful angles will not be carried to its fruition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOR VISITING PROFESSORS | 1/11/1927 | See Source »

...continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist. The lemmings have not yet learned that their oldtime highways are gone. At uncertain intervals (sometimes after five years, sometimes after 20) they mass on an edge of the Scandinavian plateau† and start a beeline migration. They move by the million, having families more plentifully than ever on the march; destroying crops and herbage; preyed on by throngs of bigger beasts. They never hesitate,moving on (like Theodore Roosevelt and his children**) over every obstacle, lake, river, mountain, until they reach the sea. Here their blind instinct persists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mice | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...Instrumental Clubs, to change their name to Harvard Musical Clubs, which was accepted last month by the Student Council, has been denied by Regent Matthew Luce '91. The Regent's action was based on the fact that the Glee Club and the Pierian Sodality had protested against such a move at this time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Instrumentalists Hit Snag | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

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