Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that has been merely a hook thrown out to coach the business man. The special editions which have become customary, and the ever-increasing Sunday supplements are more like an obstinate challenge to him. Every newsstand was once a command to stop and think: but now the presses move faster than ever. The business man has nearly been forced to admit defeat...
...issues which it has raised, cannot be dismissed by a mere committee report. The report itself admitted that its proposals were tentative in many respects. It was pointed out yesterday that the larger objective is to build a University which will "attract the more ambitious intellects". But the whole move is made on the assumption that examinations and school records will select the more ambitious intellects and not merely the more capacious. Furthermore, it seems to assumes that purely mental training is the whole function of a college. It neglects the old idea that a liberal education should concern character...
...splendid American piano of today and of its triumph throughout the world." So said Otto H. Kahn, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera House Board of Directors, in announcing that Vice President Coolidge had accepted the chairmanship of the Jonas Chickering Centennial Celebration. Among others joining in the nation-wide move to pay tribute to the father of the American pianoforte are David Belasco, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, William Cardinal O'Connell, Walter Damrosch, Fritz Kreisler...
...thirty will appreciate the greater leisure for the pleasures of the "convivial board". And, after sixty minutes instead of thirty, the mind should be much more refreshed and better fitted for attentive listening. Even if the abolishment of sleeping in afternoon classes is the only thing accomplished, this move will have done something towards efficiency...
...latter was his most conspicuous success. He is at present receiving much praise for his work in a .small part in The Love Habit. The Poincare Government has, decided to do something about the morals of the Paris stage. "Foreign disparagement of French ethics must be stopped." Its first move is to oppose the display of women in the nude. It does not insist that women shall not appear unclothed, but if they do they must do no more than appear. They are not to be allowed to move around. They must be stationary and must be employed only...