Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other, and, without describing anything else about them, make them distinct; it is nevertheless a difficulty Mr. Robinson, if his poem was to be really successful, had to overcome. But this the very introspection and sensitivity with which he has invested Tristram and Isolt make them unreal. They move behind veils, they are half hidden in a midst. Not always, of course; occasionally the mist lifts, the characters appear, and we feel the intensity of their passion...
...move is by no means novel, having been successfully taken at the games held in 1912, and it cannot be denied that it has in its favor some very attractive features, at least from the point of view of those whose unfortunate duty it will be to police the sturdy participants. Sequestered in the harbor of Amsterdam during the evenings of their stay in the Low Countries, the brawn especially selected by the United States to keep it at the pinnacle of the world's athletics will not be in any great danger of deteriorating. The few weeks spent...
...Kent--and in a school of 250, such danger would be greater than in a college of 3000. But there is a very valid objection in that the personal touch necessary between school and parent would be largely lacking at college. Some might regard it, too, as a move toward socialism--a tax on wealth...
...crowd at Enkhuizen ... by an unmistakable gesture toward the neck followed by an upward movement of the hand . . . made clear to me how thoroughly the caricature of my person produced and disseminated by Entente propaganda had fixed itself in their minds. . . . Like a prisoner, like an outlaw, I move among these Hollanders who turn away their lowering, shy visages as they pass, or, at most, look askance at me with half-closed eyes. I am the bloodthirsty babykiller ; people are embittered against the Dutch Government . . . for letting me roam about untrammeled...
Since 1890 a branch station has been operated at Arequipa, Peru, but as cloudy weather handicaps the observation in that spot, it has been decided to move to the high platforms of South Africa where better conditions prevail throughout the year...