Word: motioned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California quakes of last week were of a different sort from those that jarred the Midwest. Beneath California the terrestrial stresses and strains that built the geologically youthful Rocky Mountains are still active, and there are huge subterranean faults (rock fractures along which a shearing motion occurs). Subjected, to a continuing strain, the earth gradually bends until the limit of elasticity is reached, then slips suddenly along the fault plane. The quake of 1906 was caused by a horizontal slip of 21 ft. along the San Andreas fault...
...eyebrow pencil, screw driver, paintbrush, pencil, three-bladed manicure tool and crochet needle. She showed how a man could make a fairly complete toilet without putting anything down or picking anything up, predicted that Fingertip-equipped housewives would find it easier to peel oranges, pit grape fruit, scrape pans. Motion pictures showed how the devices were used for drawing, painting, etching, needlework...
...other. In this view, some 2,000,000,000 years ago, a wandering star happened to swing close to the sun, from which by its gravitational pull it drew out a long filament of hot matter which subsequently broke up and condensed to form the planets. The energy of motion which enabled the planets to assume orbits of revolution around the sun originated in the sidewise pull of the wandering star on the parent filament...
...there is a moment in each stride when a galloping horse has all four feet off the ground at once. It took him nine years and cost him $40,000 to win the bet. He hired a photographer, erratic, long-bearded Eadweard Muybridge, to take pictures of horses in motion at his Palo Alto stud farm. The first experiments were all failures. There followed an interlude while Photographer Muybridge was tried and acquitted under unwritten law for the murder of his wife's lover. Meanwhile Governor Stanford became impatient, hired a young engineer named John D. Isaacs who finally...
...history of medicine there had never before appeared so thoroughgoing a study of the human lung. Dr. Miller's 20g-page monograph-including an affectionate dedication to his wife who was once his student-took its place overnight beside such classics as William Harvey's Motion of the Heart & Blood, Rudolf Virchow's Cellular Pathology. Some well and lesser known facts covered by The Lung...