Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spoke at the annual dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society in Worcester. "The professional ideal," Pound said, "is menaced by the development of great government bureaus and a movement to take over the arts practiced by the profession and make them functions of the government to be exercised by its bureaus in a super-service state which may become a service super-state...
...movement to winnow out "subversive teachers" from New York State schools scored a success on March 30, when the Assembly passed the Feinberg Bill by a vote...
...secessionist movement brought to a climax a controversy over faculty tenure and administrative and educational policy which has agitated Olivet, Michigan, for almost one year...
...opera for the Liebestod; we give it to them right off the bat.") And when the four boys had romped cleanly and lightly through their special arrangements of such numbers as Schubert's Impromptu in B-flat Major, the finale of Prokofiev's Classical Symphony, the first movement of Bach's Concerto in D Minor and some Chopin études -one to show that four pianos can ripple as fast as one-the near-sellout audience thumped their hands for more...
...approved by a 33-6 vote at 2:30 a.m. (after an hour's harangue by the U.S.S.R.'s Andrei Gromyko, who thought the treaty merely a convenience for the "warmongering" U.S. and British press), the convention guarantees foreign correspondents free movement between signatory nations, and free access to news within them-rights they already have in all the nations likely to sign such a treaty. It forbids expulsion of newsmen for lawful newsgathering, and prohibits censorship except on national-defense matters. Under its "right of correction," a signatory country that feels a correspondent has distorted the news...