Word: moving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Italians were completely surprised by Hitler's move toward Anschluss, the artificialty of the Italo-German accord has been intensified. "The more Hitler says that the Brenner Pass frontier is safe," he said, "the more the Italians are distrustful...
...Student Council is to be complimented for its original penetration into the budgetary set-up, which activity supplements the recent report on the promotions problem, the University is at the same time open to justifiable indictment for permitting the existence of one-sided academic scales. Its first move should be to pour enough gold onto the other side of the scales for a perfect balance. Evenness of distribution of funds based upon the number of concentrators in each field is obviously the only way in which Harvard can guarantee full teaching in departments now over-crowded. In another quarter century...
...Interne David Wassermann of City Hospital had the queerest one in his four-month career. He found his patient, a small, plucky handyman named Marion Garey, wrapped in elevator cables over the elevator shaft of a 16-story hotel. The cables held the man so tightly that he could move only his left arm. And with this he was dully smoking a cigaret when Dr. Wassermann arrived...
...railroad problem. Virtually everyone in the U. S. from linemen on the B. & O. to the editorial staff of the Wall Street Journal had his eye on Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whose Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce has the job of drafting railroad legislation. Senator Wheeler's first move was a conference with representatives of railroad operators and workers. Ignoring the suggestion of wage cuts, the conference took up the following proposals: further RFC loans to the roads, revision of rate-making procedure, regulation of water transport, elimination of Federal barge lines, passage of the Long & Short Haul Bill...
...least cautious move was his marriage to Emma Wedgwood. It took him only three years to decide on that plunge. On the one hand, debated Darwin, was the "terrible loss of time"; on the other "a nice soft wife on a sofa, with good fire and books and music perhaps. . . ." Handsome, untidy, cheerful, unsentimental Emma was not soft, but she was, for Darwin, more than nice. Their marriage was as blissful as the Brownings'. They both agreed that Tennyson's poetry was usually silly, detested the same people, chiefly the Carlyles...