Word: movements
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bombed to bits. Philadelphia and New York lay open to attack. Then with supreme courage and vigor the U. S. forces rallied and in a fine display of open warfare threw themselves savagely upon the enemy, driving him back and back. All losses were recovered. A "lemon squeezer" movement was being applied to the invaders when an armistice ended the "war," leaving 43,750 dead and wounded on the battlefield...
...stave in a picket fence," he wrote, "should be drawn with wit, the wit of one who sees each stave as new evidence about the fence. The staves should not repeat each other. A new fence is stiff, but it doesn't stand long before there is a movement through it, which is the trace of its life experience. The staves become notes, and as they differ the wonder of a common picket fence is revealed." Artist Henri's proteges included Rockwell Kent and the late great George Bellows. As he taught he learned, particularly from conversation with...
...proverb: "Wine is the most wholesome and the most hygienic of beverages." Into many a language will the document be translated by Office International du Vin, an anti-prohibitionist organization which claims it is "a sincere friend of temperance and a bitter enemy of alcoholism." Head of the "temperance" movement is Dr. Leon Douarch. Said he, last week: "We attempt no defense of hare liquor, but wine containing 10% of alcohol moderately and conservatively consumed, particularly at mealtime, can have no noxious effects In addition to being a stimulant, it is an excellent aliment for the manual as well...
...Bishop Furse: ". . . He is hurting the feelings ... of thousands of people throughout the world with language such as his reference to the statue of the Madonna as a 'female and child.' " Answered Bishop Barnes: "I stand as a prominent member of what is known as the Modernist Movement. That movement seeks to be loyal to the Church but it also seeks to be loyal to TRUTH." Said still another Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops returned their attentions to the business of the day. Unexpected and most disturbing was the point-blank question...
Because the living heart is a generator of electricity, two heart specialists were able to report in the current issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association that the heart is never constant, that there is no normal pulse, that every sensation, thought, emotion, movement changes the heart rate, that the heart is, as might be supposed, quietest during sleep. The men are Dr. Ernst P. Boas,* 38, now practicing privately in Manhattan, and Dr. Morris M. Weiss, 28, now practicing in Louisville, Ky. They made their studies on doctors, nurses, patients in Montefiore Hospital, New York, where...