Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donald H. McLaughlin, '15, professor of Mining Engineering and chairman of the Department of Geology and Geography, will open a series of public lectures at the Geographical Institute on Wednesday. His address, "The Geography of Gold", will be accompanied by motion pictures. Professor McLaughin has recently returned from a journey around the world, during which time he visited and studied the gold regions of Australia and South Africa...
...famed Bradford Washburn, '33, will continue on December 18 with a lecture on "Exploring the Yukon's Glacial Stronghold". Distinguished by exceptional motion picture shots and a brilliant address. Washburn's lectures are always popular...
...their large business in making still films and plates, the Brothers Lumière left the invention of the cinema to stew for years in a shambles of litigation. The basic invention, they considered, was that of George Eastman who in 1889 produced sheets of celluloid film with which motion pictures could be made and were bound to be made by someone as soon as the necessary machine was tinkered into shape. The idea was patented as early as 1864 by a now forgotten Frenchman named Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron. In terms of pure theory he set down accurately...
...able. He was first a Loyalist spy in the Colonies, then Under-Secretary of State in England, Minister of War in the court of Bavaria, founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain, and the generally accredited discover of the theory that heat is a form of motion. He laid out the Englische Garten in Munich; he was offered the first command of the United States Military Academy by President John Adams (his work as a spy never having been known until recently); he conducted investigations and wrote tracts on foodstuffs, cookery, and heating (he is called "the father...
...number playing varied from 10 to 15 on a side according to how many came out for the afternoon's play. It was played with a round ball and started with a kick-off. An off-side player was called a "lurker" if he were not in motion. If in motion he could take part in the play like an on side man. Fair play was strictly and voluntarily adhered to by every player...