Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...test was a problem in logistics (troop movement), worked out by Major General George S. Patton, corps commander for the exercise. One afternoon the Fourth bivouacked in the Georgia hills, routing out buzzing coveys of quail to hide their machines under bush and scrub growth. Somewhere north of them the Second went into action against a mythical foe. At dawn the Second was moving north and the Fourth was in support...
This is an appeal to those interventionists whose position is founded on an honest concern for the best interests of America, and who do not believe that the labor movement has been a disaster to this nation-as Churchill says of England. Such claims against American labor are false...
...Union is sponsoring the meeting, under the chairmanship of its president, Francis O. Matthiessen, assistant professor of History and Literature, because it believes that the plan is "an important movement for progressive government in Cambridge...
Members of the executive committee of the New England Work Camp Association, along with representatives of the Student Christian movement, initiated the first of a series of week-end work camps last Saturday, as they spent the day in making improvements in a colored settlement house near Central Square, Cambridge...
...work camp movement, initiated by the establishment of summer camps lasting from four to eight weeks, first in Europe and then in this country, has only recently extended to weekend "camps," during the winter. The summer camps, conducted by the Friends, International Student Service, and independent groups, bring together young people of differing backgrounds to work on some project of definite value, usually in an underprivileged community. The work is most commonly manual labor, and is supplemented with a study of the region in which the camp is situated, by means of trips, lectures, and discussions...