Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convince skeptics that he is really not a dictator at all. Last winter, Manuel Quezon's shadow boxing took the form of a visit to the U. S. to promote the idea of advancing the date of Philippine independence from 1946 to 1938 or 1939. Advantage of this move from the point of view of President Quezon was that it would bring independence before the end of his six-year term. Disadvantage was that, by disrupting island economy even more thoroughly than it will probably be disrupted by independence in 1946, it might react greatly to the discredit...
...Next move in the introduction of jiu jitsu classes is up to students, Norman W. Fradd, Assistant Director of Physical Education, said last night ofter a conference with William J. Bingham...
Fradd was indefinite about just what the student' move should be. Jiu jitsu classes will not be started until there is further indication of interest...
...John James Audubon. Passing an island, Audubon saw the cross-eyed, hook-nosed face of a horned owl. Up came his fowling piece; he shot, leaped overboard to retrieve the bird. As he waded through the shallows he began sinking in quicksand. The Negroes, cautioning him not to move, braced themselves with oars and driftwood, pulled him out. He lost...
From the British point of view the concession is like money from home. It gives Great Britain a huge oil reserve which can be reached without passing through the Mediterranean, where she no longer has undisputed control. From the U. S. point of view the move looked like an astute means of splitting the unified stand of the foreign oil companies on the wage question...