Word: move
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PANAMA, April 30--National Guardsmen were ordered to move up to the town of Nombre de Dios today for the first full-scale attack on a band of Cuban-based invaders holed up inside. But they were called back to let a team of neutral observers get in first...
...bill is a major step toward legal regulation of unions. To reject the bill because it is too weak, as was done last year, would be shortsighted and stupid. The Senate has made a first move toward regulating labor by bills which are not merely imposed willy-nilly on the unions; to refuse the advance just because it is not of the ideal dimensions would be a major blunder...
Significantly, nearly every future project in the Form Givers exhibition is conceived in prestressed concrete. What attracts architects is the possibility of once again giving buildings a sculptured rather than a thinned-down look. As they move into a new world of tapered columns, arches and warped shells, engineers are once again welcomed back into drafting rooms, bringing with them new and daring structural solutions...
Pace Setters. With the quickening in the architectural air even the oldtimers, once content merely to refashion their own styles, have turned innovators again. Le Corbusier's small French chapel at Ronchamp shows that the man who first put the box on stilts now leads in the move toward sculptural plasticity. Redoubtable Frank Lloyd Wright, who once made his houses hug the earth, built Manhattan's still unfinished Guggenheim Museum of reinforced concrete in the form of a giant snail shell resting on its smallest point. Even the austere Mies van der Rohe, in his proposal...
...lows, and odd-lot trading. For point-and-figure charts (also used by other chartists) he notes each change of a point or more in a stock (½ point if the stock is under 20). By the pattern thus established, he determines whether a stock is going to move straight up or down or merely back and fill. In an upward move, he forecasts the "objective," i.e., the price at which the stock should be sold. In a move down, he forecasts the level where it should be bought...