Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...neon-tube burst into a vivid red glow, waves started to move from one end of the tube to the other, then to stand still, then to reverse their motion, and then to move towards both ends of the tube, seemingly being formed at the middle. A representative of the CRIMSON was witnessing a demonstration of research apparatus of Harris Fahnestock 1G at the Cruft Laboratory of the Engineering School...
...present impasse. He seems to be playing for high stakes, and Germany stands to lose heavily if he loses. The members of the Committee and their governments are eager to avoid the abyss which he has opened before them, but there is great question whether governments do not move so ponderously that even though the will of the people were for such sweeping reductions of the German debts and such guarantees of political restoration of Germany as he proposes, the machinery could work smoothly and rapidly enough to give him his wish. If the Dawes Plan breaks down, European reconstruction...
...modern day go 'round. The competition of this age may demand a reorganization of our schools. But the direction of that revision as Professor Rand has recently suggested, might better be back to the old fundamentals brought up to date with a philosophy of modern science. Some such move as this might by raising the standards, take care of the excessive competition, and at the same time insure the intellectual stability of university graduates...
...Parade." Alibi (United Artists) is more credible than most crook pictures. Director Roland West makes it move fast by spacing dialog with pantomime. Chester Morris gives a valid interpretation of a young man who. in the beginning, comes out of jail a gunman, and in the end goes back, still a gunman, because he cannot prove that-he was in the theatre with a policeman's daughter at the moment-when a detective was murdered. Worst shot-prolonged death of the detective. Best sound shot- liquor gurgling out of a carafe...
...Training School for canteen workers, and is now on many educational committees, among them the International Relations Committee of World Federation of Educational Association. She is successor to Miss Charlotte. S. Baker, now president of the Board of Trustees, onetime principal. Spence is deserting its old buildings to move into nine Georgian floors farther uptown-still just off Fifth Avenue. Money must be raised. Barnard's Dean Gildersleeve was called in to make (gratis) a stirring campaign speech and alumnae last week received a rousing, well-printed money-appeal. Needed is $1,000,000 and: "Naturally . . . there must...