Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Henry Lunn, whose tour in this country is in the interest of Church Unity and International Friendship, has been one of the pioneers in the movement toward harmony among the churches...
...those two and a half years that he developed the knowledge and the ability which made his rapid rise later in China possible. He is one of the large group of students who, having obtained a foreign education, now form the back-bone of the Nationalist movement...
Horace E. Dodge, Dodge Bros. (motor cars) heir, makes motor boats at Detroit. Last week, while he disported himself in the Far West (see p, 22), his company issued a statement based on information Mr. Dodge lately collected in Europe: "Since the American public has started a definite movement toward the water for recreational purposes, our [standardized] motor boat industry has grown enormously. ... Over there [Europe] the motor boat is now just what it was with us 10 or 15 years ago-a built-to-order boat." Mr. Dodge sells his motor boats as though they were motor cars...
...Acting before the camera is much harder than performing on the stage. It requires more facial expression, especially with the eyes and every slight movement of the face or head which would be overlooked on the stage is caught by the impartial eye of the camera. In acting for the moving pictures one does not have the aid of one's voice, which, I find, is a very great asset on the stage. With all these means of expression cut off, the movie actor must rely almost entirely upon his or her face. As a result an actor must have...
...indeed taken it, in the creative artistic life of America. This, I think, is a boon to America, and a deuced advance in college education. For that reason I am, as a graduate of Harvard, all the more grieved that my own university, where Professor Baker started the whole movement, has been the one ranking institution to repudiate it, and is now permitting Yale, North Carolina, Iowa, California, and so on, to influence the practical theatre arts of today, while Harvard goes happily back to a philological study of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher, or awards...