Word: movements
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...present kind of opposition little short of blasphemy. In a rousing speech to a women's trade-union group, she cried: "I sometimes think that President Perón has ceased to be a man like other men-that he is rather an ideal incarnate! For this, our movement may cherish him as its one leader without fearing that he will disappear on the unhappy day that Perón personally is missing...
Schumann: Quintet in E Flat (Rudolf Serkin, pianist, with the Busch String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). Quieter, more flowing music than the Fantasia. In this performance the first movement has some of the innocuous quality of Muzak, but it finishes strongly. Recording: good...
Then last night Jay E. Janson '51, president of the Young Republican Club, said that his group also was against the oath and that he would speak to the other officers about joining the movement opposed...
Tests made at Duke University had shown the validity of Psychokinesis, the control of movement through thought. This was demonstrated, the Duke experimenters claimed, by people who apparently influenced the fall of dice by concentrating on what numbers would occur. So far the Harvard experiments have not borne out this theory...
Basing his conclusion on the assumptions that human behavior is a natural phenomenon and is an orderly process, Zipf listed three impediments to world domination. The first is the movement of persons, goods, information, and services which is subject to the harmonic law, governing the rank and size of cities...