Word: moving
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This outcry from the Demosthenes of Missouri, James A. Reed, was in vain. The Senate voted at tea time, precisely at the stroke of 4:00, and confirmed the Italian debt settlement, 54 to 33. Senator Reed, incensed, announced that he would move to reconsider, saying that it was unthinkable that the U. S. should accept Italian bonds worth $528,000.000* for a debt of $2,150,151,000. But those who had argued that the settlement was all that Italy was financially able to pay?that it was either so much or nothing?were ahead of him. Senator Fess...
Earthquakes followed the lava, of sufficient violence to move buildings eight inches in the island's principal settlement, Hilo, on the east coast. In the mahogany and sandalwood forests and sugar plantations under Mauna Loa's great flanks, damage was extensive, though for the most part the lava followed its old paths, which lie arid and deserted...
...days. Major Lanphier, second-in-command of the Detroit Arctic Expedition, rushed repairs on the big trimotored biplane Detroiter. He took the air in search of the missing plane but was soon forced back by motor trouble. His last orders from Captain Wilkins had been to pick up and move their base from Fairbanks to Barrow as soon as possible and to come searching for him and Pilot Ben Eielson if their radio stayed unheard...
Last week he made a swift move, elected himself chairman of the "Katy," then relapsed into his set inscrutability...
...There are several dark spots on the picture I have tried to draw. We do not know what led the Mayas to abandon their great cities in the south and move northward. The exhaustion of the cultivable land may have been one of the reasons. We are also ignorant as to the events which led up to the fall of this civilization about 1450. Civil war, the injurious effects of the presence of foreigners and in all probability epidemics of yellow fever were contributory...