Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have so long taken these things for granted that we run the risk of forgetting that vigilance is required to maintain them. I believe your meeting is part of a movement of immense importance and I wish it all success...
When he learned that students had invited Secretary Perkins to the college, Geneva's psalm-singing* President McLeod Milligan Pearce last week hastily canceled the invitation, explained: "If Miss Perkins were not particularly identified with a labor movement, we would have been very glad to have...
...philosopher as well as a composer and businessman, Ives often writes lengthy prefaces to his compositions. Each movement of his Second Pianoforte Sonata is preceded by a long essay in hardbitten English. Of them he remarks in his dedication: "These prefatory essays were written by the composer for those who can't stand his music - and the music for those who can't stand his essays; to those who can't stand either, the whole is respectfully dedicated...
...delegate, went plump, soft-voiced Florence Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...
Last week 250 U. S. grownups met solemnly in Manhattan to ponder the significance of the children's museum movement. All of them hailed it as a step forward in progressive education. Dr. William G. Vinal of Massachusetts State College called them "workshops in democracy . . . laboratories of patriotism...