Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...South American B. O. M.'s marvel that Mr. Duguid could have held, successfully, a 15-ft., struggling anaconda while his companion, wearing heavy boots and carrying a motion picture camera, comes to him through a half-mile of deep marsh. Indeed, it was something of a feat for Duguid to have seen his companion wading through the marsh a half-mile away, if the brush was at all normal. We all wonder how Duguid kept the great snake within handy grappling distance from the time it was first seen until he grasped it upon sighting his companion returning...
Such spindling of the Kennelly-Heaviside Layer requires a logical mechanics. Dr. Maris, "elated over the discovery," described a mechanics to burly, booming old Captain Robert Abram ("Bob") Bartlett, who while visiting Alaska is acting correspondent for the New York Times. Dr. Maris expounded: "The earth in its motion through space occasionally passes through streams of gas, debris of comets, etc. It is entirely within the realms of possibility that friction between the atmosphere of the earth and these very rare gas clouds should leave the earth with a positive charge...
...Defeated (212-to-174) a Republican motion to consider a bill automatically upping tariffs against countries with depreciated currencies...
...Defeated (41-to-31) a Republican motion to go into executive session to consider and confirm President Hoover's nominations...
Just to assure readers of the CRIMSON that he was an utter ass, (as well as snob), he added an editor's note to one of the letters received criticizing his article. The letter concluded, "Boston, we agree, is the Hub of the Universe. Everything else is in motion." The editor appended, "And one might add, going around in circles." Of course, to include Germany with its scientific progress, New York, and so on, in a remark of this kind, is conclusive proof that the editor is in harmony with a page from Stephen Leacock's fun book, on which...