Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Labor had heard about President-Elect Hoover's scheme to prevent unemployment, as outlined by Maine's Brewster at the New Orleans conference of Governors (see p. 13). Of this scheme William Green, President of the A. F. of L., had said: "It is the first definite movement to systematize wages & employment . . . the first important announcement on wages made for a decade...
...Although every citizen is free to hold his own views as to the identity of the future King, my Government will take legal steps under the Constitution to punish those responsible for agitation, if the movement in behalf of Otto or any other candidate continues...
...vibrant, airy landscapes of Claude Monet, worshipper of sunlight, rapt student of motes, beams, the subtle tones of shadows. More than any other man, Monet epitomizes the impressionist movement, the realization that perceptual reality is not composed of insulated objects each of characteristic colors, but is rather a play of shapes at once defined and related by the one blazing spectrum...
...that all bull markets ... in the past 50 years have lasted only about two years does not necessarily indicate that the end ... is to be expected in the immediate future. It is, however, decidedly interesting to note that this present market has now completed its second year of upward movement...
...present report finds English, which has held the lead for the past six years, superseded numerically by Economics. And this is not the first time that Economics has come to the fore; previous to the ascendancy of English the Department of Economics held away during several desultory years. The movement is patently variable and the reasons for the present turn at best only hypothetical. It may be that more students are now concentrating in Economics than in English or any of the sciences because the propensities of the modern Harvard mind tend toward the pursual of a path midway between...