Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this was not all. The General began to treat with the Opposition, explicitly the Seiyu-Honto Party, which, as an indirect result of the murder of Premiar Hara in 1921, split from the Seiyukai in January, 1924. The significance of this last move, coming as it does on top of the others, was that it would, if successful, give General Tanaka no less than 250 seats, or an absolute majority of the House of Representatives. It was therefore argued, as the move seemed likely to succeed, that the days of the Kato Cabinet are numbered, although doubtless it will remain...
...came Commissar of War or Commander-in-Chief of the Red Army, a posi tion which he held until last February. The dominating trait of his character is energy. One week he was in Siberia, another at Moscow, another at Sevastapol. Always was he on the move. His discipline made that of the Tsars a sort of mother's love and it was said that every officer and soldier went in terror of his life. So much for his efficiency...
Thereafter, daily, for five days, 800 Army and Navy officers attended the "critique," listened to the senior warriors' expositions of every move of the twelve-hour battle...
...find them at home, before they have made their annual pilgrimage over the Sierra Parima to the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. But these placid cannibals were most likely at a loss, last winter, when they pricked their ears to the distant humming of a billion ants on the move, a humming that became the drone of a host of baritone bees, of one giant bee, of a visible giant bee with a tail like a scorpion, of the first airplane those cannibals had ever seen. Down from heaven fell red parachutes at their feet -bales of beads, knives, gewgaws. "Glug...
...McFadden will open his company at Salem only as a temporary location. He plans to move it to New York the following winter and eventually to establish it as a permanent repertory organization...