Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote approval. One diehard, James Larkin, Dublin Laborite, spoiled a unanimous vote. "The payment of $50,000,000 to Britain is a compromise," groused Laborite Larkin. In London, Prime Minister Chamberlain, busy last week with another neighbor, France (see p. 15), is expected this week to set in motion his machinery for parliamentary approval of the accord...
Elected to Congress, Cowboy-Congressman Rogers feels like a matted maverick in well-groomed Washington. But when he discovers that hoity-toity capital society functions as purposefully as a medicine show, he puts on a show of his own with motion pictures of his constituents' plight, gets Federal attention for his district's man-made "drouth...
...which perpendicular beams of light were raced against each other, seemed to show that a light-carrying ether pervading all space did not exist. Fitzgerald, Larmor and Lorentz shored up the collapsing ether-concept by showing-theoretically-that a moving body must contract slightly in the direction of motion, that a moving clock would therefore slow down. Though imperceptible except at speeds approaching light's velocity (186,000 mi. per sec.), these changes would affect a Michelson-Morley apparatus just enough to cancel any possible observation of the ether-drift-by altering the timing mechanism and the measuring rods...
...Einstein's Relativity (1905-15) the ether was discarded as an unnecessary hypothesis. The Fitzgerald-Larmor-Lorentz effects were incorporated into Relativity theory, not as a consequence of absolute motion through a stagnant ether but as an effect of relative motion. If two observers are moving relative to each other, each one would find, checking by his own timepiece, that the other's clock was running slow...
...Motion can teach but little to the breast that holds your grief...