Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisiana legislature, rejoicing was not so wholehearted. Members from districts where Federal spillways and floodways will force dwellers to move out, defeated a resolution of thanks to the U. S. Congress. .. After the excitement had passed, citizens considered what actual Flood Control work would go ahead forthwith, and what the U. S. had done already...
...absorbing scholastic or athletic activity; so the Glee Club does not at that time have such dangerous competition for its members' attention as earlier in the year. In consideration of the popularity of the Yard Concerts, and of the probably slight inconvenience to the Glee Club in such a move, the CRIMSON believes that the extension of the concerts from two to six in number, to be presented at weekly intervals from the April vacation to the end of May, would be an innovation on which the University would look with great pleasure...
...value of the Phi Beta Kappa key as a symbol of something more than excellent scholarship appears interminable. Several weeks ago in an article widely commented upon by the press. Mr. Gifford, president of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co--expressed his opinion on the subject. He found many move wearers of the key, proportionately, occupying responsible business positions that their less scholastic classmates. This view seemed a convincing refutation of a rather widely held opinion among business men that these who had won high standing in college were not apt to be particularly successful in business...
Wheat exports move chiefly from the Americas and Australia into Europe and the Balkans, although most European states grow a major portion of what they consume. France, for example, grows one-fourth as much wheat as the U. S., three times as much as Germany, twice as much as Rumania and slightly more than Italy...
...subways. It is 8 a. m. A hand seizes an electric switch. Machinery gleams in a maddening rhythm. White-hot balls become bottles. Typewriter keys dance. Faster and faster until noon. A lull. Sausages and beer. Chicken and silver platters. An elephant yawns and wags his tail slowly. Machinery moves again. So do feet, taxicabs, street cars, the arms of traffic officers. There is a suicide at the river, a bubble in the water. Workmen wash their hands and the factory gates roll shut. Rowboats on the river, tennis, golf, a kiss in the dusk on a park bench. . . . Headlights...