Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would be unjust to say that this mountainous production has labored mightily and brought forth a mouse, but it certainly has brought forth no result comparable to its size, Weighted down its own tremendousness, they play loses its sense of movement, purpose, direction, and sprawls out into a series of isolated scenes. Even this impressionistic, kaleidoscopic technique might have created a unified effect had the production staff been able to set and maintain a snappy pace. But many of the scenes were punctuated with lengthy pauses, the sense of continuity sinking further and further into the background with each succeeding...
Since the cost of labor has become a major item on the budget of the dining halls, the movement for student waiters will probably gain force...
...insists on viewing the curtailment of academic freedom at Chicago, Ohie, Dartmouth, Princeton, and Cornell, not to hit nearer home, as isolated instances, but one does not have to be gifted with second sight to see these isolated cases of the curtailment of academic freedom as part of a movement which did not begin and will not end at our colleges and universities...
...insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement to improve medical care of the people of this city...
...band. At the peak of his career he visited the U. S., conducted one gigantic concert with a chorus of 20,000 and 100 assistant conductors, was so frightened by the experience that he scurried back to Vienna for good. Seventeen years later, in 1889, a new popular musical movement had begun to sweep Johann and his waltzes into history. It came from the U. S. and it was in 4/4, not ¾, time. The Waltz Kings were succeeded by a March King: John Philip Sousa...