Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Henri Bergson's sense of motion and change led to the élan vital theory which presents a mysterious, inward, upsurging force as the driving influence of evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes...
...Mill River Valley, a large nursery and arboretum at Spring Valley. The staff comprises 30 to 35 scientists, six stenographers, 20 engineers and technicians, three librarians who care for 20,000 reference books and 10,000 pamphlets, three photographers who keep a pictorial record of the work and make motion pictures of sunflowers "waking up" at midnight, of plants wobbling drunkenly as they recover from gas anesthesia...
...there a rational physiological explanation for having a Pullman passenger's head in the direction of motion either for sleep or when awake? Most persons in riding on a train prefer to sit facing forward. But in sleeping in a berth the head is by choice placed toward the front of the train. In ambulances it is also routine for the head of the patient to be at the front of the conveyance. This brings to mind the practice of Charles Dickens and other Victorian notables of carrying a compass and having the hotel bed placed with the head...
...affected by dizziness, nausea and vomiting with the eyes open in a fast moving conveyance such as a train. But there is no evidence, rational or experimental, indicating that a person sleeps better or more comfortably in a moving conveyance when the head is directed toward the direction of motion. . . . "The only possible influence on the body that could be affected by the position of the head in a moving conveyance would be the action of gravity on the blood flow or tension on the viscera, but most of the traveling speeds are insufficient to have any appreciable effect...
...meeting of the Board of Overseers, the recent vote of the Board that the quinquennial catalogue be printed in English was reconsidered and a motion to have it printed in English was lost by a vote of nine to seven...