Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...experiment, a group of sixteen Freshmen showed marked improvement in reading skill and some advance in scholastic standing, after eight weeks of special training last fall. They increased their reading speed by 50 percent, gained in reading accuracy, and altered for the better their habits of eye movement...
...little to fend off other yellow men's attacks were now too busy even to do that. By innocence, weakness, timidity, China had got herself in for what promised to be a furious autumn campaign. Last week the campaign began. The theatre: South China. The tactic: a flanking movement to cut the rich rump of China from every blood supply...
With the western frontier fortified, Brauchitsch could plan his attack, and the form it took was as old as warfare itself. Only the materials and the name were new. Blitzkrieg, in its simplest terms, is merely a war of movement, as opposed to a war of position, carried out with the fastest units available. Before World War I it was cavalry that flanked enemy positions, cut off communications, destroyed supplies. In both the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 and the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 the Germans won their decisive battles within six weeks after hostilities began...
...Russians in the northeast, that a hot fight ensued at Molodeczno, rail junction between Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces piercing far ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would...
...Horace Kallen of New York's New School for Social Research accused some scientists of using "professional expressions" to mystify rather than to clarify, and opposed the unified language movement by declaring: "Common sense advises that a common language guarantees neither common peace nor common understanding." Difficulty in the way of a common language is that chemistry, physics, biology, astronomy and dozens of other sciences and subdivisions each need a battery of precise terms for precise communication, so that if a common language is to take the place of special technical vocabularies, it would have...