Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came out. A distant cannon boomed the hour of noon. From the bell tower fell the slow notes of God Save the King. The crowd stood motionless; until the last echo died there was no movement but the slow swell of the flags...
...popular movement would overthrow the monarchy, establish a leftist, anti-German government. Europe's listening posts described the temper of Bulgaria's people as ugly. Peace demonstrators marched in Sofia's streets, stoned the Nazi Embassy...
Equaeverpoise. Des Moines citizens who were curious about Lawsonomy could find some books and newspapers on the subject in the city library. Lawsonomy is to produce "the master human intellects of all time." It introduced "zigzag and swirl movement" and the law of penetrability. Samples of what the new university will teach and give degrees for: "From waste matter . . . elements of air and water . . . [and] from the Sun, Menorgs create living things. . . . The Menorgs found it more difficult to balance a two-legged animal than ... a six-legged one.... EQUAEVERPOISE of man is effected principally in three ways: 1) Nourishment...
Leading a varied life as varied as a French Foreign Legionaire, Professor Friedrich came to America in 1922 thoroughly discouraged with the passive and conservative life at Heidelberg. Joining several other European students on a lecture tour of the United States sponsored by the then powerful Youth Movement, he crossed the continent several times and by that time had learned English and had decided to stay. In 1926 he came to Harvard...
Propaganda. The Economist was not always respected and influential. When James Wilson, an ambitious politician (later Finance Minister to India), founded it, his primary purpose was to propagandize against the British corn laws (regulations on the import of grain) and support the laissez faire movement. He shrewdly mixed some political and business articles in with the propaganda, managed to gather some 3,000 readers, a small profit and a journalistic reputation before he died in 1860, leaving his paper to his six picturesque, strictly Victorian daughters. They and their descendants, apparently endowed with Founder Wilson's zeal and luck...