Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McAvoy should . . . have taken time to have the engineer put the power reverse gear handle in forward motion on the quadrant, instead of reverse, as in its present position, when he pulls the throttle, the engine will reverse, and if he's a good engineer and has his slack ''bunched," he won't move the train...
...first second of fall there was a horizontal velocity of about 175 ft. per sec. and a vertical acceleration . . . of about 16 ft. per sec. At the same time there was a tumbling motion of the body making a complete revolution in about two seconds. Of all these motions . . . the only one recognized was rotation of the body. . . . During the third and fourth seconds, the eyes were voluntarily closed and during that time all sense of motion was lost. . . . The sensation was that of being suspended at rest in midair. When the eyes were opened, which was at an altitude...
...Democratic State Chairman for New York and onetime (1919-21) U. S. Representative, argued that the more the company protested against Government interference, the more the Government was certain to interfere. Then up jumped Stockholder Norman C. Norman. He was emphatically opposed to Stockholder Pell's motion. The Administration, he said, had already passed many illegal measures. Utility managements would be grossly careless in failing to take every possible measure to protect their interests. Gesturing toward the table at which sat Mr. Groesbeck and other Bond & Share executives, Mr. Norman cried: "If they don't fight, the gentlemen...
...plate glass front, just big enough to make a beautiful target for your foot. The idea is that at the first peal of the fire alarm, the unfortunate inmate of the room makes a flying leap at the box and kicks the front in. Then in one rapid motion he hurls the rope ladder out the window, first making sure that it is tied to something in the room, and clambers nonchalantly down the wall, trying to act as though he were leaving his yacht...
...Rand is also attempting to procure the first of the Theatre Francais productions, Moliere's "Precieuses Ridicules," and "La Maison do Moliere," from the new motion picture organization of the Theatre...