Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...motion was introduced to retract the statement issued unofficially by one member of the club in condemnation of Senator Huey Long. The motion was tabled, but the club refused to recognize the policy as official...
...with fair success from the silent films, where she made her greatest success, is a victim of the decline in pantomime. Pretty, sentimental, and equipped with an expressive set of gestures, her voice remains the weakest part of her repertoire of talents. Consequently she suffers from the inertia of motion picture directors who go the path of least resistance, rely largely on dialogue and consistently fail to develop the vast scope of the camera. The result is a decline in pictorial beauty, dramatic sweep, and imaginative appeal. "Carolina" is more of a step towards pictorial technique than most...
Johnny Abrams, Swarthmore captain, set his team in motion by scoring the first basket, and before the visitors could get their hands on the ball, the Garnet team had run up an 3-1 lead. The only spark in the contest came at this point, when Harvard rallied to bring the score to 8-5, but then Swarthmore swamped Harvard during the rest of the first period and the score at the half...
...idiosyncrasies of the censor have always been the subject for much speculation humorous and otherwise. But Mr. Wilton A. Barrett, executive secretary of the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, has undertaken to explain the phenomenon on a purely empirical basis, and, since this is a professional matter for him, he carefully eschews facetiousness. Much investigation has convinced him that motion-picture, censorship is due primarily to "the bewilderment of any people confronted with a new mode of expression"; this simple analysis, however, is merely a starting point for the learned Mr. Wilton. a combination of erudition and suspicion...
...small denomination bonds, which people will be persuaded to buy with the money now lying idle in saving banks, and which will circulate as currency. Thus not only is the socialization of agriculture and industry financed, but also predatory (that is, all) banks are wiped out. Once set in motion, the land colonies and state factories gradually drive all capitalistic enterprise into bankruptcy, and in an incredibly brief time rich and poor become words of the past...