Word: movement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...know is this - and I'm hoping TIME can supply the rest: in the middle of the last century there lived in Maryland a Negro woman, a slave, who felt so strongly on the subject of human bondage that she started an "underground" movement of slaves across the border into free Pennsylvania . . . and later to Canada. ... As her fame grew, Northern Abolitionists supplied her with funds and advice. She became, in time, the most famous Negro woman in U.S. history. . . . Her name was Harriet Tubman...
...There is a plan afoot to rename it Jinnahabad. Karachans, however, did not welcome Pakistan with the wild enthusiasm that swept the new dominion of India (see above). After all, Pakistan was the creation of one clever man, Jinnah; the difference between a slick political trick and a mass movement was apparent in the contrast between Karachi and New Delhi...
...anthropology which, she claims, has a direct bearing on her art. She is now working for a Ph.D. at Columbia University. Says she: "What I try to express in my dancing is the culture of the Negro people. ... I am not preaching a 'back to Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have to say about my own life or place in my own land. But some day I hope...
...broad shoulders and, above all, slim hips. In pursuit of such lean, athletic elegance, women zipped themselves into elastic girdles, consigned themselves mercilessly to seven-day diets, rolling machines, long walks and meditation over calorie charts. At the same time, they luxuriated in what was known as "freedom of movement"; no joke tickled female audiences quite so much as references to corsets and the Victorian practice of lacing...
Henry C. Usborne, placed on Parliament's back benches by his constituency of Acock's Green, Birmingham, will be making a tour of the United States next fall to promote a movement for world federal government. He is also making arrangements to talk at the National Press Club in Washington and the Overseas Press Club in New York City...