Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Press dispatches from California Institute of Technology last week described "the creation of matter out of pure motion." The impression given was that this was a brand new accomplishment. Actually it was only a bold recapitulation of work done the past two years...
...Joliots suggested that the added energy might also have come from gamma rays which accompanied the alpha particle crashes. Gamma rays, like visible light, represent unaffiliated energy in motion. Caltech and Cambridge (England) scientists developed the Joliot thought. They aimed gamma rays at the hard nuclei of atoms. The gamma rays disappeared and two new entities appeared-ponderable electrons and positrons...
...main event of the day, a dinner will be served at 6.30 o'clock. Dean Henry E. Clifford will extend a welcome to the graduates and undergraduates, and following this, a program of entertainment has been arranged, with music, motion pictures, and a humorous talk by Mr. F. W. Taft, editor of the Lexington Townsman...
...With the Roosevelt Administration in a position to control the radio; with an almost equal power over motion pictures, and with public emotion stimulated to such a tense state that public meetings must of necessity reflect the spirit as well as the letter of inspired governmental propaganda, the only possibility of the U. S. escaping a dictatorship was inherent in the fight of ... journalism for public recognition of the freedom of the Press...
...evolution of public opinion there comes a time when mass action must be sustained and supported by the convictions of that intellectual and responsible minority which thinks before it turns from leader to leader or jumps from cause to cause. ... By concentrating upon the radio and motion pictures . . . and by discouraging free discussion of economic policies, General Johnson has swayed the masses by fear and created doubts in the minds of the intellectual minority whose support is essential to recovery...