Forties Swing, Hollywood Flash

2021 ◽  
pp. 127-156
Author(s):  
Constance Valis Hill
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Swing Era ◽  
Stormy Weather ◽  
One Step ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Half Minute

This chapter discusses the Hollywood musical films of the Nicholas Brothers under a five-year contract with Twentieth Century-Fox that brought them to the highest level of notoriety as jazz tap dancers in the Swing era. In Down Argentine Way, despite the mere three-and-a-half-minute scene in which the Brothers appeared, audiences flocked to the theater to see them perform the title song. In Sun Valley Serenade, with Dorothy Dandridge, the Brothers’ Chattanooga Choo Choo number was the aural and visual embodiment of swing music. In Orchestra Wives, Harold performed a run-up-the-wall into a backward flip and split that had never before been seen on film. And in their spectacular Jumping Jive number in Stormy Weather, Fayard jumped down one step and landed in a split, Harold leap-frogged over Fayard and landed on the next step into another split, and the Brothers alternately jumped over each other until they reached the bottom of the stairs—a routine Fred Astaire said was the greatest he had ever seen on film.

Improving the International Development Architecture

2020 ◽  
pp. 105-128
Author(s):  
Constantine Michalopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
International Development ◽  
Primary Education ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Universal Primary Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Collaborative Efforts

The end of the twentieth century and the beginning of the next millennium was characterized by an extraordinary burst of international cooperation on development. At the core of this cooperation was the UN Millennium Summit in September 2000 and the related agreement to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The U4 played a role both in the run-up to the MDG agreement and in linking the achievement of the MDG objective of ending poverty to collaborative efforts between donor and recipient, with partners in the driver’s seat setting their own priorities. This chapter starts with a discussion of the agreement to establish the MDGs at the UN and its implications for development. Then it turns to the perennial question of how much aid developed countries should commit to provide to developing countries, and what donors and recipients must do to make aid more effective, two central issues of the Monterrey Conference on Finance for Development in 2002. The last part discusses the special U4 and international community efforts to achieve universal primary education and to battle HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases.

scholarly journals On the Question of Stepwise [4+2] Cycloaddition Reactions and Their Stereochemical Aspects

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 1911
Author(s):  
Radomir Jasiński
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reaction Mechanism ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Alder Reaction ◽  
Diels Alder ◽  
Cycloaddition Reactions ◽  
Diels Alder Reaction ◽  
One Step ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way

Even at the end of the twentieth century, the view of the one-step [4+2] cycloaddition (Diels-Alder) reaction mechanism was widely accepted as the only possible one, regardless of the nature of the reaction components. Much has changed in the way these reactions are perceived since then. In particular, multi-step mechanisms with zwitterionic or diradical intermediates have been proposed for a number of processes. This review provided a critical analysis of such cases.

scholarly journals The Most Hazardous and Dangerous and Greatest Adventure on Which Man has Ever Embarked

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (07) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Burton Dicht
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
Space Program ◽  
The Moon ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Space Race ◽  
The Face ◽  
One Step ◽  
Run Up

This report highlights on run-up to success, the American space program that had absorbed a series of high-profile embarrassments as the Soviet Union, with which the United States was competing in a so-called Space Race, seemed to remain one step ahead. To declare so publicly the goal to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade was to risk another humbling loss. At the time, the public spotlight shined on the face of the space program, the astronauts who had already become national heroes. One of the biggest issues to settle was the mission architecture—the steps through which spacecraft would be launched, landed on the moon, and returned safely. The engineers who designed the remarkable pieces of space hardware were only a part of the overall Apollo team. Thousands of engineers were involved in launch processing and monitoring the flights. In an era when computer systems were primitive compared to what we have today, constant communication between the astronauts and an army of engineers back in Houston was critical to ensure the safety of the astronauts as well as the success of the mission.

The 2 High Horizontal Man Sportsman Run-Up Final Step Sport Credits of Long Jump of Horizontal Speed Loss Reason

2010 ◽  
Vol 121-122 ◽  
pp. 728-732
Author(s):  
Hang Ying Lou ◽  
Guo Zheng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Horizontal Velocity ◽  
Knee Angle ◽  
Kinematic Parameters ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Long Jump ◽  
One Step ◽  
Run Up

This paper compared relevant kinematic parameters of the long jump elites from home and abroad, it analysed the reason why the reduction of the horizontal velocity in the last two steps in the world elites was 0.48m/s, while 0.68m/s in the domestic elites.The first reason the paper presented is to jump up too early which leads to the decrease of the velocity in the last two steps, the second reason is that the accelerative ability is weak and the length of one step varies, and the third reason is that the landing angle of the last step is small but it is big for the angle of departure. Apart from the above mentioned reasons, the paper also proposed another indispensible factor is that, the change of the knee angle in the last two steps which can help prevent the horizontal velocity from deceasing.

scholarly journals Task dependency of movement regulation in female gymnastic vaulting

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-72
Author(s):  
THOMAS HEINEN ◽  
ISABELL ARTMANN ◽  
ANJA BRINKER ◽  
MARC NICOLAUS
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Information ◽  
Task Demands ◽  
Movement Behavior ◽  
Balance Beam ◽  
Foot Placement ◽  
One Step ◽  
Task Dependency ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Two Parameters ◽  
Female Gymnasts

Background: In gymnastics vaulting it is thought that gymnasts regulate their run-up on the basis of visually perceived environmental information, such as the position of the springboard, with the aim of an accurate foot placement on the springboard. The question, however, arises if these regulative processes found in gymnastics vaulting can be generalized to other tasks with similar demands but differing dynamics? Material/Methods: To answer this question, ten female gymnasts were asked to perform two target-directed gymnastics tasks that were similar in task demands but differed in task dy-namics. When performing the two tasks, the position of the springboard was manipulated without the gymnast’s awareness. Results: Results revealed that manipulating the position of the springboard had neither an effect on the distance of the hurdle, nor on the placement of the feet on the spring-board during the reactive leap. The two parameters, however, clearly differed between experimental tasks. Additionally, regulation during run-up occurred on average one step earlier when performing the tucked leap on the balance beam. Conclusions: It can be concluded from the results that gymnasts exhibit a different movement behavior when performing tasks with similar demands but different dynamics, thereby integrating environmental information in the regulation of the run-up and the reactive leap from trial to trial.

Modern Ballroom Dancing

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliet McMains
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Physical Contact ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Ballroom Dancing ◽  
Public Controversy ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Ballroom Dance ◽  
One Step ◽  
The One

Twentieth-century modern ballroom dancing differed from social dancing of the nineteenth century in its shift in focus from group cohesion to individual personal style. This focus on personal expression paralleled Progressive Era values that emphasized free will and individual action as a means to social progress. Through the use of the closed hold, many modern dances (including the one-step, the Castle Walk, the maxixe, the tango, and the foxtrot) brought partners into closer proximity for extended periods of time. The resulting physical contact of partners combined with the unpredictability of movement inspired by the accompanying ragtime evoked public controversy over the propriety and decency of modern dances. From the 1910s through the 1950s, these dances were standardized by an American modern ballroom dance industry capitalizing on new means of mass production and distribution to sell ‘‘refined’’ versions of these dances (all of which were of lower-class origin) for consumption by upwardly mobile clientele. The codification of modern dances for mass dissemination, however, eliminated many of their defining modern features, particularly personal expression through improvisation. Modern ballroom dances as interpreted by the English became the basis for ballroom dance competitions exported internationally by the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing throughout the twentieth century.

The Coastal Trade of Connah's Quay in the Early Twentieth Century: A Preliminary Investigation

2009 ◽  
pp. 305-326
Author(s):  
John Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Coastal Shipping ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Dee Estuary ◽  
Regional Factors ◽  
Run Up ◽  
First World

This chapter explores one of the few existing sources for coastal trade activity in ports - the trade records of Connah’s Quay on the River Dee between 1905 and 1914. It examines the port register, crew agreements, and the records of Wrexham, Mold and Connah’s Quay Railway, in attempt to determine the specific (as opposed to national or regional) factors that contributed to the decline of port activity in the run up to the First World War. These factors include the treacherous waters of the Dee Estuary; the absence of liner trade; the narrow range of goods; and the imbalance between outward and inward-going voyages. Through analysis of these factors, it concludes that Connah’s Quay was indeed atypical of the national trend in coastal shipping during this period.

Prayers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew S. Seligmann
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Naval Leadership ◽  
Considerable Pressure ◽  
The Church

The Edwardian Navy had a pronounced Anglican ethos. Three quarters of its sailors were members of the Church of England, as were all of its chaplains. If there was, thus, ample spiritual provision for the conformist majority, the religious needs of the non-conformist minority were less well catered for. Such discrimination was becoming increasingly unsustainable in the more pluralist era of the early twentieth century. Consequently, in the run-up to 1914, the Admiralty enhanced provision for Presbyterian, Methodist, and Catholic sailors, who were afforded ever-greater access to their clergy when ashore. However, the naval leadership consistently refused to allow non-Anglican clergy to minister aboard its warships. With the outbreak of war, there was considerable pressure to change this. It was accepted that those who might fight and die deserved a priest of their choice. Accordingly, Churchill introduced reforms that broadened the religious character of the Navy for ever.

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