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Word: moving (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...foreground during the last few years because several hundred cities have taken action to provide for future growth through the medium of a trained city planner. The demand for these men has been so large in recent years as to cause the School of Landscape Architecture to make this move in the direction of supplying that demand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANDSCAPERS MAY SPECIALIZE | 10/2/1923 | See Source »

...chief fault comes from a lack of rehearsals. A singer will not agree with the orchestra about the tempo. Ensembles will not move along together, with a resultant flagging of gait. The action, too, is apt to be unsynchronized. It is perhaps over much to expect that a troupe charging a modest fee shall go in extravagantly for such expensive things as rehearsals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: $3 Per Seat | 10/1/1923 | See Source »

...demands. She will continue her occupation of the Ruhr until she achieves her hopes or until she is forced by circumstances to alter her present attitude. England's attitude is a constant puzzle. Lord Our son recently issued his strong pronunciamento calling in question the legality of France's move into the Ruhr. Then last week Premier Baldwin had a conference with premier Ponicare the nature of which has been kept profoundly secret. It seems almost impossible for the English government to eat Lord Curson's strong statements, yet on the other hand continued opposition to the occupation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GERMAN SPECULATIONS | 9/26/1923 | See Source »

...This move had the effect of calling Mussolini's bluff on Italian pretensions. Instead of resorting to war he followed Yugo-Slavia's suit in filing the Italian copy of the Rapallo and Santa Margherita documents with the League. He then made a new offer to Yugo-Slavia, the terms of which were not published. It is understood, however, that for the present both parties will neither invite nor accept outside arbitration of their differences, but if they are eventually unable to reach an agreement the entire Fiume question may be placed before the Permanent Court of International Justice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Bluff Called ? | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

...pounds. Such a team would pull 10 loaded coal wagons on pavement. On different types of roads varying loads could be pulled, grading from concrete through brick and asphalt to dirt. The two horses weighed 1,725 and 1,905 pounds respectively. They could start heavier loads, move them faster, farther, and with less exhaustion than lighter teams, showing that weight is an important element in a draft horse. These tests proved that horses have more reserve power available than was believed. They can exert from six to ten times as much power for a short time as they ordinarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Horse's Power | 9/17/1923 | See Source »

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