Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with the autogiro, which uses an airplane propeller for forward movement, can neither take off vertically, hover (except with the help of a good wind), nor travel sideways or backward...
...loch and splashing ashore. Mud-coated from the day's earlier work, they formed in three waves, headed up the hill, one wave advancing while a second fired bullets and mortar shells over their heads at dummy targets, and the third swung wide in a flanking movement...
Some things we promised to unscuttle last week still are not entirely clear. But here's what we hear from usually collapsible sources.... The cooperative housing movement is progressing, but fast. One of the Harvard apartment dorms across the river is being renovated. Although still occupied, negotiations are "proceeding very satisfactorily" and prospects for June 1st occupancy (or sooner), at $45 to $70 per month look rather hopeful
...turned out, which chose the time-before China became too strong. With China at war, the demands on Madame were terrific. She was Secretary General of the Aeronautical Commission, and that practically meant being commander in chief of the Chinese Air Force. She tried to build the New Life Movement into a vehicle for women's war work. She sat in on most of the Generalissimo's conferences, and though she was seldom a policymaker and never a strategy-maker, she was often an adviser whose advice was taken. She wrote speeches and articles to try to educate...
Civic Pride. In bomb-pocked Chungking, police were inspired by the ninth anniversary of the New Life Movement to enforce a few neglected laws, among them a prohibition against throwing fruit peels on the ground, a requirement that all carriage ponies get a biweekly haircut and manicure...