Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approximately 200 Harvard men and 25 Radcliffe girls will represent Harvard Square religious groups this weekend at the three-day conference of the New England Student Christian Movement at the Copley Square Churches...
...organization which has grown out of the pre-election Committees for Wallace, called the draft "part of a growing movement towards war; not by the American people, but by corporate interests whose every cent is staked on preserving their hold on a rapidly changing world...
...also hopes to double the number of Puerto Ricans (5,000 in 1948) who go to the U.S. as migratory farm workers. Even that will not eliminate Puerto Rico's chronic labor surplus. For that, Muñoz has only one remedy: orderly but large-scale emigration. One movement he wants to discourage at all costs is the sort of undirected emigration that last year added 28,000 unwanted Puerto Ricans to the slums of Manhattan, Chicago, Gary and Lorain, Ohio...
...November ARCHITECTURAL FORUM, out this week, devotes its entire issue to this collaboration between science and architecture. One section deals with heat, a vastly complicated subject. Mere control of temperature and humidity is not enough: the air must have the proper amount of movement. The walls of the room must be at the right temperature. A person can have chills in a room with cold walls, even though the air around him is comfortably warm...
...Faithful Persevere. A few years later, a Benedictine monk named Luigi Vaccari organized a popular movement, still continuing, to bring pressure on the Pope. Dom Luigi persuaded a layman to travel the world collecting signatures to a petition. Some 25,000 signatures came from Mexico alone. The Holy Office forbade Vaccari to continue his activities, but the "humble faithful persevered in prayer," and so many petitions were flooding in upon the Vatican that finally Pius XI gave the movement his official blessing. In 1946, the present Pope sent a circular letter to all the bishops of his Church...