Word: flux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...time of flux at Soldiers Field. Changes have been made in the football museum and in the methods of cheer leading. And it does not seem that these changes have been made for the worse...
...elapse between a general revision of our tariff schedules. There should be some way of correcting specific inequalities during such intervals. If there is any merit in the idea of a flexible tariff, it is too much to hope that an experimental measure devised in a time of abnormal flux and instability in international trade conditions may be rewritten to meet obvious difficulties in practical administration...
...from his visit to the front (TIME, June 22), made important reports in secret to the committees of the Chamber. To this procedure the Communists strenuously objected and were quieted only by the strong hands of a dozen or so sergeant-at-arms. Socialists were in a state of flux and could not make up their minds whether to support the Government's Moroccan policy or range themselves definitely with the Opposition. As a vote on this point was postponed, they were left in their quandry...
Last week, in Manhattan, two exhibitions opened which reveal the forms that these two impulses, still in flux, have taken in contemporary Art: One by Lorsen Feitelson and his wife, Nathalie Newking, at the Daniels Gallery; another by ten famed Frenchmen, at the Dudensing Galleries...
Significance. Trouble on the seas and the world in flux; General Washington, in his yellow coach blazoned with cupids, lumbering, for the last time, from the Capitol; a Corsican swelling in Europe like a wen-such a period inevitably lent a lustre to extravagance and was a nursery of fantastic spirits. It is with this period that Author Minnigerode is primarily concerned. His essays are like the intricate oil-paintings of the time: a little figure in the foreground, and behind, in chiaroscuro, ships, crowds, cannon, marching men. In the interests of his characters, he has pried with a candle...