Word: movements
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more than twelve inches from the end of the slide; the slides are lengthened, too, from twenty-six to twenty-eight inches, and thus give the calves and thighs additional possibilities. To guard against the seat running away before the oar enters the water, and to facilitate its movement on the recover, the runners are laid of an inclined plane. In order to attain something like uniformity of power and space between the first and the last half of the stroke, the pins are placed in front of the end of the slide. It should be understood that this stroke...
There is a movement on foot at Yale to provide a cup to be given to the man who makes the best foot ball kicking record during ten years...
Best general references: Senator Blair's "Temperance Movement," chapters 16 and 17; Dr. Lees' "Liquor Traffic;" North American Review...
...proper subject for legislation (a) for the protection of the state and the citizens-Cong. Globe, Vol. 29, first session, 33d Congress, p. 1135; (b) it is not a sumptuary law-Blair, Temperance Movement, p. 337; (c) and does not infringe on personal liberty-Lees, Liquor Traffic, p. 91; (d) It is proper, also, for the constitution-U. S. Supreme Courts Reports, Curtis, 16, p. 519; Our Day, 1, pp. 11; Journal of Social Science...
...temperance movement should be kept out of politics-Forum, 3, 152; New Princeton Review, 4, 31; Popular Science Monthly, 26, 790; Andover Review...