Word: moving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clarence A. Dykstra, provost of UCLA, apologized to Laski's sponsors, and termed the delay an "overnight." But students at the university circulated several petitions protesting this "overnight," and U.C.L.A.'s Student Executive Council began a move to obtain some voice in decisions regarding outside speakers...
...engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests. The B-36 had left standard jets gasping for air at its 40,000 foot operating altitude; even the F-86, which had grabbed the world's speed record, could not keep up with...
...fleet command when he complained. The new Secretary of the Navy was chosen from a civilian job in which "he never got any closer to the Navy than a row-boat." And there was a wave of mutterings in Congress about the "high-handedness" of Secretary Johnson's move. The forthcoming test is a result of this Congressional pressure...
...January 28, 13 faculty members moved to organize Shipherd College, a move branded by Ashby "an ingenious device to attract public attention. . ." But despite the Board's granting of life tenure to a few teachers, the exodus was on. Three instructors resigned early this year. Another dropped out on March 1. Mobee and another teacher quit on March 2, two more on March 3, another on March 9, and another on March...
...Straus Trophy, which has been sitting in Eliot House all year, got ready to move across the street to Kirkland yesterday. The Deacons did so well in the first day of the two-day House champion track meet that they have undoubtedly clinched the Trophy for the first time since...