Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago, major Southern California publishers decided to starve radio stations of all publicity except bare program listings. Last week the movement spread: in San Francisco and Oakland six papers* decided to follow suit temporarily -permanently if readers did not object. In Chicago, the Tribune, following earlier action by the News and American, discontinued its daily radio news column. Meantime, advertising agencies were working on a plan for listing sponsors or products in newspaper radio logs at specified advertising rates...
...form remained in the windpipe and its branches, never penetrating into the little sacs (alveoli) which absorb oxygen from the air and eliminate carbon dioxide from the blood. They could see by X-ray the foreign particles moving from the base of the lungs up & out. The movement they discovered was spiral and (viewed from above) clockwise. Particles traveled 1½ inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli, were not completely excreted except over a period of weeks. The researchers found that the cilia...
When the bloody bubble of Dublin's Easter Rising fizzled out in 1916, it left a number of ruined buildings, a few snipers still forlornly shooting from housetops, a profound wave of disillusionment in the Irish revolutionary movement. Last week, a young Irishman named Louis Lynch D'Alton dramatized the change in revolutionary hearts in a bitter first novel that showed how two Irishmen reacted to the Easter Week fiasco. To Revolutionist Andrew Kilfoyle, who fought in it, the Rising was sickening, "a revolt of poets and schoolmasters," inept, ill-planned, melodramatic, futile. It convinced him that next...
...before thee, and pierce not thy host with many glances, for it is an abomination to force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that hath not been used, free...
...whether the third party would split the liberal movement, La Follette declared that the liberals would split of themselves unless united behind a platform embodying their fundamental aims. If the Democrats or Republicans offer such platforms, the National Progressives would withdraw. There is no indication of such political reversal, however...