Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...younger Leftist militants (chiefly Longshoreman Harry Bridges, Sailor Joe Curran) wanted Leader Lewis to go beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William Green and re unite on C. I. O. terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that move. Then he permitted every union president worth mentioning, Bridges & Curran included, to parade to the platform. They upheld his position that C. I. O.'s industrial unions cannot risk dismemberment by joining any body dominated by A. F. of L. craftsmen. Said Electrical Worker James Barren Carey...
...wreckers, both dignified Chinese scholars, who in pre-war days occupied professorial chairs in the chemistry and physics departments of Peiping universities. They explained their technique to the correspondent. "It's like a game of chess. Our opponent is the Japanese army engineer. He tries to checkmate every move we make in wrecking his trains, but thus far we have kept one jump ahead." The erstwhile professors admitted they had copied Lawrence's method of train wrecking-setting off an explosive charge under the rails as a train passed over-until they ran out of explosives. Then they...
...which runs through a pulley at the head of the bed. Weights varying from five to 30 lb., according to the amount of tension needed, are attached to the end of the wire or rope, thus pulling the head upward and backward, keeping the vertebrae slightly apart. Patients can move freely in bed, can eat and sleep in normal positions. Installation of the tongs is not at all painful, for the skull is almost completely insensitive...
...This move is regarded as a logical outgrowth of the plan of giving departmental examinations to every Junior and Senior. With regard to this practice, the creation of a "serious intellectual purpose" in the minds of undergraduates was noted by Yale's president...
...American family in the town which bears his grand-father's name, Dalesford, Connecticut. Captain Dale can no longer run his shoe factory at a profit, and his farm produces next to nothing; seventy-four years old, he wishes to liquidate what few assets he has, move his daughter-in-law and grand-daughters to Florida, and spend his last days peacefully in the sun. When he has made his decision, the embodied ghosts of his progenitors appear to dissuade him, and the result is an extremely poignant and delightful first...