Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French resistance along the northwestern frontier was weak, though brave, because the French had not anticipated so wide a movement against them. While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through on schedule, and the retreat to the Marne, though orderly, was saved from being a rout with Paris captured only because General Helmuth von Moltke, the German Commander in Chief: 1) weakened Kluck's Army by taking from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline...
...past weeks the press (with few exceptions) has sought to convey the impression that the Communist movement has been shattered, its members mazed in confusion and disillusionment, its ranks thinned by mass defection. The resignation of Granville Hicks, reported in the Press, is already being seized upon as an incident to lend plausibility to this tissue of fiction...
...Communist movement has long been accustomed to the loss of a few individuals in critical times. But despite these isolated defections, it grows stronger and more unified on the basis of its correct position...
...background to the understanding of collective bargaining, the course includes a survey of the historical development of the American labor movement, and an interpretation of its influences...
Final eye movement records of the experimental group showed a fundamental change in reading habits, and also in reading attitude, it was reported last year. The students began for the first time to exercise control over the eye movements in reading. How permanent these changes will prove to be will quite certainly depend on the intentions of the learners and will, of course, vary with the individuals, it was said...