Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chang started recently from Canton with an army of 100,000 students. It must be remembered that there is no railroad between the North and the South of China, thus it is necessary to move troops on foot. Within two months Chang has marched 600 miles; and although his government has not yet been recognized by the powers, it is at present the most influential in China. I think that Europe will have to recognize this Canton government sooner or later; and when this takes place, the present phantom Pekin government will vanish entirely...
...From the huddle a team can come out into any one of a multitude of formations the exact nature of which is concealed from the defense until almost the instant when the ball is put in play. This result could not be achieved if the team made all its moves from a standard formation, because the defense could move with, and as fast as the offense...
...defense, headed by shrewd Lawyer Frank J. Hogan, contends: 1) That the Elk Hills leases were both a profitable and a patriotic move for the Government, because in return for them the Doheny interests built an oil reserve plant for the U. S. at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii;* 2) That the entire transaction was urged and approved by onetime (1921-24) Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby; 3) That Secretary Fall had only wanted to serve in President Harding's Cabinet for one year as "the capstone of his public career," and that he stayed a second year because...
...sympathy with the 18th Amendment and is a Catholic should not disqualify him. It is my calm, deliberate judgment that Smith would not lose a single Southern State. ... I have no further po litical ambitions, but I expect to take an active part in the move ment to nominate Al Smith...
...company has been in Ware since 1835. Girls and boys go to work with their grandparents. Families live in its tenements. They rent company six-room cottages for $1.50 a week. Otis Co. has been Ware's maintenance and its culture. Last week company stockholders were planning to move their works to Alabama where "poor whites" work longer hours and for less money than at Ware. Yet factory work pays better than farming, with cotton at 12? a pound. Ware hopes that Henry Ford who is re-establishing Colonial industries at Sudbury, Mass., will come to Ware and keep...