Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pressing need for better and cheaper food has set in motion widespread agitation, declared Drexel Sprecher 2L, chairman of the group. An efficient organization to make the issues known to the law faculty and to the controlling board of the University is necessary at this time, he stated...
...cliches-handsome soldiers, sidewalk cafes, double weddings, fine pastries and beer, even a Russian countess. The costumes are shrill in color and changed with great frequency the better to dazzle the patrons. Excellent dancing by men and girl choruses and by a well trained Albertina Rasch ballet adds pleasing motion whenever the singing duet is carried away by one of its arias...
Pierre J. Martin, a little French painter of 62 who invented an unsuccessful sort of motion picture screen, dreamed not long ago that he flew to Mars and found there a race of little people with long hair, pointed ears and chickens' feet. They were eating cherries. He painted a picture of this and last week it was on the walls of the same exhibition...
...lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force. Nearest that common readers can get to Virginia Woolf's prose meaning: human nature does not change, it only seems to, like the particles of water moved by a wave. Thus her characters are not so much individual people as aspects of human nature: human particles in the moving wave of time...
...address was illustrated with motion pictures...