Word: move
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Perfecto E. Laguio, M. A., Yale 1926, saw in the picture evidence of subtle propaganda designed to defeat the move for Philippine independence. Said he, at Manila: "It is a fake which was exposed 14 years ago. How it has been resurrected I do not know, nor do I know whether the little paper was aware that it was a fake. Somebody who hates the Philippine Islands has produced it in order to persuade Americans that Philippines are incapable of governing themselves...
...half hours six strapping men stood on the coffin lid, held it at the bottom of the pool until Mr. Houdini telephoned that he was getting numb. Extricated, too weak to move, he explained that he had conserved his air supply by taking little breaths. His comparative conditions were as follows...
...years ago in Omaha, Neb., one Tony Veneziano clutched his throat and toppled into the gutter, never to move again. One Paul Blackwood, accused of his murder, pleaded self-defense, was set free. Last week some gentlemen behind a fence shot and killed Blackwood and his wife as they walked home from the theatre. A detective questioned Mrs. Veneziano...
...share on common ($2.93 in 1925), that orders on hand June 30 were $50,010,117 ($59,390,376 Mar. 31; $50,342,813 June 30, 1925), that production was at 72% of capacity (56% last July). Directors made no move to resume Bethlehem common dividends payments...
That cycle began in 1905 when a female child was born to Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Wills in Centreville, Alameda County, Calif. Sleep- simple food-outdoor exercise-her father had used the phrases before. He used them on his patients, and pretty soon he was able to move to Berkeley and send Helen east to school at Hopkins Hall (near Bennington, Vt.). She was still very small when the War started, and one year she came home for the summer holidays to find the house strangely empty. Her father had gone to France. When, two years later, he came...