Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mural Room of Chicago's Hotel Morrison: the furtive, snickering little women who pass around anti-Semitic postcards; the Coughlinites; the pinch-lipped, waspish old couples with gleaming eyes; the Patrick Henry Forumites; the overcorseted We the Mothers; the fanatical ragtag & bobtail of a 100% star-spangled movement...
...embarkation is a finely timed, streamlined operation. Nowadays, when the high command decides to send a regiment, division, squadron or other unit overseas, the outfit's commanding officer is "alerted." Then a movement order directs the outfit to be prepared to depart on a specified date...
Less than a year ago, Germany was reaching across Africa and into the Caucasus, preparing to strike at Suez. A huge pincers movement threatened to put the entire Middle East in Axis hands. Japan, victorious in Burma, stood at the threshold of an almost defenseless, politically confused India. The enemy had a very good chance to join hands; the result might easily have been the complete defeat of Russia, Britain, the U.S. and China...
...crystals to generate an electric current when placed under stress was first observed by Haüy in 1782 and rediscovered in 1880 by Pierre Curie. It is called "piezoelectric effect" (from the Greek piezein: to press; literally, pressure electricity). Conversely, quartz crystals can translate electrical energy into mechanical movement. When an alternating current is fed through a slice of quartz it vibrates at a definite and unchanging frequency. The thinner the slice, the higher the frequency. It is like a tuning fork which sounds the same note no matter how hard or lightly it is struck, or like...
...effect of farm life upon the Average College Man and Woman. We would have the linguists harking to the guttural shouts of the plowmen. The Grant Study would stage a mass invasion, weighted down with electrodes and calipers. Norman Fradd, the News Office, Professor Merk (History of the Westward Movement), Ada Comstock, Dean Sperry, the Master of Kirkland House, and Mike of Mike's Club (with portable dispensary) would be there for obvious reasons. You might even come across Claude Wickard, grubbing about in a bean patch...