Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your recent account of a shooting here (TIME, Feb. 6) was written with characteristic colorfulness, but it seems that you sacrificed accuracy to attain this end. The student in question did not shoot his professor until fully a half hour after he was seen cribbing. This move was made after he had confirmed his expulsion from the institution, which is automatic in such cases. What is more important, he returned to his quarters before doing...
...most significant aspect of this move to broaden selection from the ranks of university graduates is the change in service examinations from highly specific quizzes to general tests. Thus the government will follow the brilliant example of the English system in requiring of candidates some evidence of broad intellectual attainment instead of technical knowledge. While this method of examination may be an effective bar against the entrance of mediocrities in the service, its use in England proves that it can be undemocratic in excluding the less educated classes. However, the easier accessibility to a college education in this country than...
...Walking heel-&-toe, British style, one can move twice as fast (a mile in 6 min., 30 sec.) as with an ordinary gait and two-thirds as fast as the best mile runners...
Sunk for fair, German State Railways today manages to run within three or four hours of schedule, hauls 8,000 carloads of freight daily to the Siegfried Line, does the best it can to move millions of German workers and political delegates around the country free of charge, to an endless succession of congresses and demonstrations...
...Manhattan members of the Hawaiian Society got up on their ear, condemned in no wavy way Cinema Tap Dancer Eleanor Powell's version of the hula-hula. Fumed the Society's president: "In the true hula the dancer waves her hands to indicate a fish. She moves her hands to her eyes to indicate eyes. . . . There are many sorts of hulas, including epic hulas. There can even be frivolous or comic hulas. But Miss Powell's is not any of them. It is a serious mistake and an insult to confuse the hula-hula with the hootchy...