Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explained that by next Wednesday the Executive Committee will have drafted the movement's explicit final statement of principles and would announce this together with sponsors and plan-of-action...
Believing it "appropriate that the University which was the birthplace of the Marshall Plan should give impetus to the movement to save the Marshall Plan," the letter called for public action to fight for the "original purpose" of Marshall's proposals, which, it says, was "reconstruction," not "mere relief...
Towards this outspoken group, for very different reasons, moved certain close-mouthed airmen of the Air Force and the Navy. They remained close-mouthed because their views were not the official views of their superiors. But this subsurface movement would sooner or later come into the open...
Right Thinking for $6. The movement (it soon became that) was started in 1874 at Lake Chautauqua, N.Y. by John Vincent, a young New Jersey minister, and a businessman friend from Akron named Lewis Miller. By 1900, what had begun as an open air "Sunday School Teachers' Assembly" for 40 young people (two weeks of clean living and right thinking for $6) had expanded into an association that ran a school of theology, a correspondence-school university and a publishing house. To the "Mother Chautauqua" pavilion by the lake came U.S. Presidents, reformers, topnotch writers, singers, and actors...
...combined Glee Glub and Choral Society were called upon only during the last movement of the Symphony, which is set to an ode called "Resurrection" by a man called Klopstock. The ode concerns God's splendor, which according to the concert notes is Mahler's substitution for God's judgment. At any rate, this reviewer, for one, does not know whether the tenors were properly balanced with the sopranos or if the basses were in good voice, but he asserts that the tone of the choral groups was always pleasant and controlled, even when they were called upon to join...