Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since retiring from the presidency of Harvard, Dr. Lowell has accepted an appointment to a Senior Fellowship and has succeeded the late President Hibben of Princeton as chairman of a commission to study the influence of motion pictures on children...
...Zoology department has recently bought for about $450 a machine which enables the worker to dissect living organisms so small they must be viewed through a microscope. Fine glass needles are so arranged in the instrument that a coarse movement of the hand lever registers only the slightest motion in the needles. The worker can actually touch the nerves of tiny cells with his instrument and watch the muscular reaction...
...last week President Roosevelt had swung Industry into line with a series of NRA codes. The nation's storekeepers were being regimented under a Retail Code. He was about to turn his attention to the nation's consumers, whose purchasing power was to be set in motion with a "Buy Now" campaign. Special posters, silhouets of the Capitol in blue, were rolling from the presses. Individual manufacturers were ready to launch private advertising campaigns. General Hugh Johnson declared that the "flat wallet era" was about...
...sharpest vision] in the one eye, just in the fashion in which many birds have stereoscopic vision in each eye now. Although the field of view will then be narrower than now the eye will probably be both microscopic and telescopic; it will be exceedingly acute for colors, for motion, and for form; and, finally, most important of all, it will probably be able to perceive as light many forms of energy which now produce in human eyes no sort or kind of perception...
Most snakes "see hardly anything except objects in motion. Most snakes are nearly deaf too, so that their knowledge of the outer world reaches them largely by way of the little forked tongue, which is probably the most wonderful tactile organ in existence...