Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Sing-Sing Prison, N. Y., it was announced that one Lester Gerstenburg (16), "youngest prisoner awaiting the electric chair", has mastered the art of checker playing. Gerstenburg, in solitary confinement, shouts his moves, records on his board the move the other prisoners shout to him. He is "checker champion of the death house...
General Hans von Seeckt, Comman-der-in-Chief of the Reichswehr ( German Federal Defence Force), started the move by writing to Herr Ebert, President of Germany. Said he: "I believe the task that fell to me has practically been fulfilled. The authority of the State has been so strengthened that the measures initiated under the exceptional State ordinance for the rehabilitation of our national and economic life can be carried on without it. In case you, Herr Reichspresident, share my view, I request you make it public...
...object of the move was said to be that the Croatians intend to go to Belgrade (the capital), join the Opposition there, oust Premier Pashitch, demand new elections, revise Balkan policy, "kill" the Italo-Yugo-Slavian treaty over Fiume (TIME...
...plants, contain in their eyes and sometimes in their skin, photosensitive substances which are chemically altered by light. The products formed influence the contraction of the muscles. If the animal is illuminated on one side only, it is compelled to turn in the direction of the light and move forward in a straight line. Thus the marine worm is "positively heliotropic" (to sun-light). These reactions are quantitatively graded to the strength and distance of the light...
...which are high in proportion to market conditions. The main justification for this policy is of course the fear of inflation. Nevertheless, declining earning assets of certain Federal Reserve banks may be a contributory cause. The expectation of a lowered rediscount rate is general; it is felt that this move is after all the "ace-in-the-hole" of the party which has undertaken to make this Presidential year one of prosperity and confidence. Much "bull ammunition" has already been shot off, such as U. S. Steel's extra dividends and encouraging prophecies by individuals who usually care little...