Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...other troops in protecting foreign life, property and the essential public services. Machine guns cleared the streets and, after dark, armored cars patrolled the thorough- fares. Meantime, a general strike had been ordered, numbers grew from a few thousand to a quarter of a million. Those Chinese against the move were terrorized into submission. All Chinese were exhorted to "assassinate foreign police," "assassinate foreigners connected with the law courts." The general situation grew worse as each day passed. The strike spread to Changsha and Nanking, capitals of Hunan and Kiangsu. Sniping tactics were bgeun. Officials from Peking arrived, opened...
...conducted numerous pillaging expeditions in the Wergha Valley in French Morocco, which is the south side of the Spanish zone. The French countered by occupying the valley in force. The Spanish blockade drove the Riffs to depend more and more for supplies on their agents in French Morocco. This move was accompanied by inciting other Moroccan tribes to revolt against the French. France took action to protect the natives. Abd-el-Krim replied by declaring that the occupation by French troops of the upper Wergha Valley, which was under his control, constituted an unfriendly act, declared war. The French reply...
...atrophied and become internal as is usual). In such cases, when the child is glad, its tail sticks out straight; when the reverse, its tail goes down between its legs. There are from 70 to 180 details of the body which are atavistic, including the muscles which sometimes can move the ears, the muscles that make hair stand on end, the appendix (which in herbivorous animals is important in digestion), the pineal gland in the top of the head where the first amphibians had an eye (probably as a lookout when they" were half buried in the mud). 3) Paleontology...
...Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh. Next, his hand was suspected in a mysterious purchase of the Ann Arbor by the Wabash- which, as is well known, Air. Loree covets lor his "fifth system." As yet, however, this proposal for another Eastern railway merger is not taken seriously, except as an obstructing move to the recognized "Big Four." For Loree's "fifth system" must apparently include the Lehigh or Lackawanna to gain its indispensable entry into New York. In both of these roads, Mr. George F. Baker and allied interests are deeply interested; and Mr. Baker's obvious interest in disposing...
...small college; they have the same inclinations and desires, the same healthy ambitions, and the same feeling of "growing up." The difference is that at the university they mature, or seem to mature, more quickly, which is but natural because of the environment in which they move. Constant exposure to crowds and city life cannot help developing a young man's resourcefulness and social instincts more rapidly than does daily contact with tarred streets and flowered hillsides. (Oh, to be at Williams now that Spring is there...