Word: movement
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...personalities. ... In these circumstances the Government must deny that the Indian army is too large. On the contrary should certain contingencies arise [i.e., with Soviet Russia,] the army of India will not suffice. . . . I note, however, a distinct ray of hope in the waning of the Swarajist (NonCooperation) movement...
...were finally seized by the original master as they reached an age suitable for slave work. Reputedly, the grand Khan has seen the error of such ways with so blinding a suddenness that he freed all the Kalat slaves without compensation to their onetime masters, thereby precipitating a revolutionary movement which the Khan is now busy suppressing...
Following up the preliminary announcement as stated by President Lowell in his Report for 1926, the Department of Biology now offers the details of its new program, necessitated by its adoption of the tutorial system. Thus one more field of concentration falls in with the movement towards greater reliance on tutorial methods--a movement which has been the outstanding characteristic of Harvard education since...
...need not be, however, over-concerned with the historical phase of the matter, with Cezanne's relation to the movement of Impressionism, nor with the more complicated experiments of his technique in the fundamentals of form and light. One can easily find in those works in display much that is Classical, much that shows the influence of Courbet, Tintoretto, Rubens, and Delacroix. But what is most important is the realization of the subjective character of the exhibition and the willingness to 'look again' in an endeavor to penetrate the wall of unphotographic reality which will probably, with the majority...
...wealth of material to work on. Returning to dancing and especially modern dancing, she said, "I feel that popular dancing as one sees it today is nothing mere than a complicated form of hugging. It will, however, probably change very soon and return to some more rhythmic form of movement." When asked if she liked Havelock Ellis's "Dance of Life" she shrugged her shoulders and said, "Of course, it is a very great book and is practically our Bible...