Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Your article on Quakerism [TIME, Nov. 18] is not only well researched and ably documented but it also caught the essentials of the Religious Society of Friends as a movement. Noteworthy is your reference to the Quaker method of conducting business. Not as well known as the meeting for worship, the meeting for business is original and unique...
...expensive piece-meal movement of a greatly improved Boyden station from Peru to the climatically far superior terrain in the high veldt of Orange Free State, South Africa. Here six telescopes are in constant use, systematically photographing the Southern skies...
Coming at the end of a thirty-year distinction in the College between the A.B. and S.B. degrees, and climaxing a twelve-year movement within the Faculty to do away with the S.B., yesterday discussion passed a motion substantially the same as that proposed by the Committee on Educational Policy after its meeting last Wednesday...
...result of the absence of young men of the calibre of Schorer and Barber is the situation in the field of American literature. Above the basic introductory course, English 7, exactly two undergraduate courses in the field have been offered this fall: one on the local color movement and the other on American fiction since 1890. Both are specialized in the extreme and neither is concerned with the central focus of American literature, the middle span of the nineteenth century. And to pile Ossa on Pelion, the course on American fiction since 1890 conflicts in examination group with professor Merk...
...Gillian had long been working up to just such tests. At 17, when her widow-mother could not afford tuition at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Gillian won a scholarship, later got a prize for "grace and charm of speech and movement." At 19, after a swing through the provinces as a speechless Shakespearean lady-in-waiting, she toured the Near East with an E.N.S.A. (Britain's U.S.O.) girl show. Last spring, she got her big break in television...