Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nature's greatest sights -a giant condor taking off. Trotting down a slight incline with wings half spread, gathering speed, nosing up at full stretch, picking favorable currents, it spirals up, up, up 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 ft. to soar for hours without one visible motion of its magnificent wings...
...have dragged their hooks in the sea for excitement rather than nourishment, slim, voluble Van Campen Heilner of Spring Lake Beach, N. J. is one of the most generous. With camera (still and motion) and typewriter he constantly shares his catches with less footloose lovers of fishing, and now he has compressed 25 years of expert sea angling experience within the covers of a 432-page book* in which he not only rhapsodizes about big ones caught and lost but gives an extremely tangible summary of his secrets for taking every American salt water species worth wetting a line...
Actually, although all attempts to pin it down in the laboratory have failed, the little neutrino has already made itself useful. When particles are knocked out of a nucleus, there is a mysterious disappearance of both energy of motion and energy of "spin" (angular momentum). It is therefore assumed that the lost energies ride away on the elusive neutrino...
...After a motion for reconsideration had held up the repeal of the Teachers Oath Bill over the weekend, the House of Representatives refused to submit to a third roll call and sent to the Senate yesterday the legislation which will be debated in the higher body on Wednesday...
...believes that the whole Milky Way; was once a nebulous cloud of gas in random motion, in which large clumps condensed because of differences in the gaseous viscosity. Thus a sun and its planets might be formed at the same time, and the original motion of the gas plus the forces of gravitational attraction would provide the motion for planetary revolution...