Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the seals came into the circle of light the fish were thoroughly frightened, and quickly gained speed and surfaced. As soon as the wings cleared ever so slightly they were flapped in flight-the motion being so rapid as to constitute practically a blur of movement, like the wings of humming birds...
...successful in & out of the university that other faculty members followed suit: Walter Bartky with Highlights of Astronomy; Mayme I. Logsden with A Mathematician Explains; Geologists Carey Croneis and William Krumbein with Down to Earth. Pioneer Lemon, who thus has the distinction of starting a whole popularization movement within his university, now plans to write a few serious publications to satisfy sticklers among his colleagues, spend the rest of his life composing "funny books" like From Galileo to Cosmic Rays-one of them, soon to be published, a breezy discussion of atom-smashing...
...elevator has been electrified in order to facilitate the movement of sick students. The size of the service rooms has been doubled in order to improve the handling of trays and the care of the sick in the wards...
Almost axiomatic with Left-wing labor leaders is the belief that the U. S. labor movement will fail inevitably unless it includes Negro workers. William Z. Foster, generalissimo of the 1919 steel strike blamed the failure of his great drive directly on Negro labor. Some 85% of Negro labor is unskilled. Not only do Negroes work for less money than whites, but Negroes, particularly if raised in the South, are more impressed by demonstration of civil authority, more easily cowed by tough company tactics. Moreover, Negroes, having been barred, openly or tacitly, from many an old line union, have little...
...falling as the party members passed in review are always a "personal and physical strain," and he welcomed the cool weather in Nürnberg. "When you keep moving your arm up and down in salute for hours at a stretch, you generate heat," Hitler laughed. "This continuous movement, coupled with the emotional strain, is very trying in hot weather...