Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Called by Professor William Y. Elliott "the most powerful philosopher of democracy today." Lord Lindsay led a movement to reverse the aristocratic tendencies of Balliol and to make the college "marked only by an aristocracy of intellect...
That cooperation, plus a new book application system, explains the smooth rolling of what is perhaps the biggest mass movement of students here, outside of registration...
...Western powers. It is a current affirmation in circles close to the General [De Gaulle] that war against the Soviet Union is inevitable and that, when it breaks out, Spain will become the principal base from which the opposition will be directed against Russia and the democratic movement in France...
...Suits & Coolers. The jet plane's controls, helped by hydraulic boosters against the powerful airstream, are devilishly sensitive. "The slightest movement hurls you over miles of the earth's surface as the ground blurs beneath you." Jet pilots normally wear "G-suits" to protect them from loss of consciousness. These operate automatically on the turns, keeping the pilots' blood from leaving their brains and concentrating in the lower parts of their bodies. "When you do a sudden steep turn, you are punched severely in the belly as the abdominal bladder inflates and the laces tighten around your...
...only did the Episcopal Church take the initiative in the general ecumenical movement, but it was upon its initiative that negotiations with the Presbyterian Church were begun. . . . The plan which the majority now presents deliberately omits for further consideration certain questions of detail (the functions of bishops in the united church, for example) and goes directly to the crucial matters of episcopacy, the ministry and sacraments. On these and other questions a surprising identity in principle was discovered...