Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Underwood of the Erie sat in his Manhattan office last week. He had just resigned his job and those "mighty fine young men," Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen, had replaced him with President James J. Bernet of their Nickel Plate road. This was probably another move of the Van Sweringens towards their merger of the Nickel Plate, Erie, Chesapeake & Ohio, Pere Marquette and Hocking Valley roads into their Nickel Plate System, which the Interstate Commerce Commission thwarted last March (TIME, March 15). President Underwood has always been "good copy" for newspaper men. There was the time...
Swedish Nobel Prizes. Dynamiter Nobel placed the awarding of all his prizes except the Peace prize in the hands of his fellow Swedes. The learned faculties charged with this duty move ponderously. Last year they awarded no prizes (TIME, Nov. 30, 1926). Last week King Gustaf V of Sweden bestowed the 1925 prize for Literature on Bernard Shaw, personified by the British Minister at Stockholm. Recipients of the other prizes were not so offish. One and all they came to Stockholm, received their medals and diplomas from the royal hand. Recipients: 1925 Physics prize shared between Professor James Franck, University...
...compartments of various courses and toward greater individual work and research under the general guidance of tutors. Every such requirement as that referred to above, every further limitation upon the number of courses required for a degree with distinction, like that which went into effect this year, is a move in the right direction. The tutorial system is taking positive form with surprising rapidity. It is surely not too much to hope that new and greater additions to its strength will be made in other departments also before the end of the present scholastic year...
There is no limit to membership in this group. All members of the University are invited to join and express their opinions on the best way to organize such a move. The main reason for holding this meeting before the vacation is to give the persons attending an opportunity to think the matter over, 30 that when work is resumed on January 3 some definite plans can be formulated...
...little kingdom of Sardinia, the Italian states swept aside the Papal authority, threw off the Austrian yoke and laid the foundations of what has become under Mussolini, one of the Great Powers. And in this process of resurrection and reconstruction no man did move than Count Camillo di Gavour...