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Word: movements (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...George Eastman Chair should prove, however, more important than any one of its incumbents. It is in line with the present movement among universities here and oversees to exchange the services of their best talent. Harvard is enjoying now not only the eminent ability of the Professor of Poetry at Oxford, but also that of visiting lecturers from France and Germany...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROAD TO OXFORD | 10/31/1929 | See Source »

...Relation of French Revolution to Intellectual Movement of the Time", Professor Brinton, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/30/1929 | See Source »

...Hiram Johnson, fidgeting for the fray, demanded longer battle hours, suggested night fighting for a change. Suddenly, as if to dispel any notion that they were employing the famed desultory tactics of Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus ("Cunctator"), the Insurgents with almost the entire Democratic army, executed a quick flank movement. With Freebooter Norris taking command and uttering blood-thirsty cries, the opposition Senator-soldiers marched toward the farm lowlands. In a fierce three-hour assault they pushed headlong into this neutral territory, laying behind them a long pipe line stretching from the U. S. Treasury marked Export Debenture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE TARIFF: 509 to 157 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...chip off the old block, gets interested in fingerprints when he finds that they are like leaves- no two alike. Lloyd took six months making Welcome Danger as a silent film, then made it over again putting in dialog where it fitted. All the big scenes are movement, and talk makes the shorter ones funnier, helps the action get started. The gags, like Lloyd's lecture on the petunia in the fingerprint studio, are meaningless when separated from the context but uproarious in it. Originally Welcome Danger was three hours long. Lloyd cut it himself at previews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 28, 1929 | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

...Russia and the Decembrist Movement" Professor Langer, Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/23/1929 | See Source »

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