Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nearly two months our troops have fought an enemy on the mainland who had heavy advantages of great air superiority and considerable freedom of movement by sea. Our task has been to impose losses on the enemy and to gain time to enable the forces of the Allies to be concentrated for their struggle in the Far East...
Tricky Mr. Moto. The Jap, who is variously "Mr. Moto," "Tojo," "Charlie" or "the Japanzy" to U.S. troops, was beginning to show a heavy preference for night movement, when concealment is best...
...Emerson was right in saying that an institution is but the lengthened shadow of one man. Dr. Mott has cast his shadow in all directions. In 1886, while still a Cornell undergraduate, he helped build the Student Volunteer Movement. In 1895 he sparked the World's Student Christian Federation proclaiming "the evangelization of the world in this generation." He inspired the Laymen's Missionary Movement which spurred U.S. Protestants to increase their gifts for missions. At Edinburgh in 1910 he chairmaned the great interdenominational world conference, out of which evolved in 1920 the I.M.C., which he has headed...
Five hundred skirted Seniors of Stephens Junior College for Women at Columbia, Missouri, are rumored to be planning an invasion of Harvard as arousing as the fabled Martian attack and as irresistable as Professor Merk's westward movement, threatening to disrupt completely College routine...
Advocating a future world government, Professor Pay said that the foundations of this government have already been laid in the agreements between the Poles and Czechs, and the Greeks and the Jugoslavs, which foreshadow unified military commands, single currencies, free movement between the countries, and common foreign policies...