Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrats and Progressive Republicans view this action by the Republican caucus with distaste and distrust. They regard it as a political move to shut off investigations in order to protect the Administration. They fear that, if investigations are referred to committees for appraisal as to their worth, the committees will pigeonhole them...
...Hudson, Mass., local authorities appealed to the immigration authorities to deport a group of aliens who recently attended the funeral of a Mrs. Catherine Tomosuines, who was buried with no other ceremony than the scattering of red flowers on her grave. No move has yet been started to deport Mrs. Tomosuines herself...
From the scholastic point of view, the advantages of the move more than balance the loss of picturesque, undergraduate activities. Many institutions furnish collegiate atmosphere, but not the opportunity for earnest study which presents itself at Johns Hopkins. In universities which combine the functions of graduate and undergraduate instruction, the college man often looks with suspicion on the older student who is so obviously and completely engrossed in bookish work. At best, the two sections of the college world pursue their diverse interests interfering with one another as little as possible. But in the classroom, friction develops between the needs...
...move of the Republican caucus to limit senatorial investigation comes at an inauspicious time. Before a congressional election, the majority party's concealment of its record, even on the plea of economy, has a suspicious appearance which is scarcely a political asset...
...cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel-nut box, "dragons of gold with eyes of jade," "Buddhas of gigantic size with heads that move," parrots, crows, peacocks...