Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American people see and understand. Imperturbed, they move majestically forward in the consciousness that they are making their contribution in common with our sister nations to the progress of humanity." Another Pittsburgher of the Cabinet,* Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, accompanied President Coolidge back to Washington...
...lighter fogs were used in practice last fall, and again this year, and were found entirely satisfactory, as the men were not only able to move with greater speed, but were amply protected. The line, with the exception of the ends, will play in regular football uniforms, so that the team will be in two parts, those in the familiar heavy fogs, and another group in a new abbreviated regalia, more like rugby than American football equip...
...long time James Walsh knew what he wanted to do most. He wanted to be an altar boy, and wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
...Harvard Observatory is now making a specialty of the study of the movement of the stars. The question which Observatory astronomers are seeking to settle is: Why do the stars move, and what natural law if any gives them a goal and a rate of speed...
...cast of each of 50,000 different stars must be studied before conclusions can be drawn, and as in order to do this 2,000 plates must be examined minutely, the problem is a most difficult one. The difficulty is increased by the fact that the stars move so slowly that it is a long time before any two plates of the same portion of sky can be compared...