Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Robert Luce will deliver his Bowdoin prize dissertation on "Electricity as a Mode of Motion" in Harvard 6 tonight...
...first floor is the parlor, and the windows in this apartment are hung with white lace curtains, fitting symbols of that energetic unrest which pervades certain Western houses, for these curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this...
...star-route cases came up in court at Washington yesterday. A motion was made to quash the indictments. The eminent counsel drew a large audience...
...term. In fact, several men had signified their intention of boarding at the hall next term for this very reason, until the decree of the directors was promulgated. The best remedy for the present state of affairs would be to call a special meeting of the directors, reconsider the motion assigning as the time for closure the last of this term, if it must take place, and asking those men who intend to board at the hall next term to hand in their names before the recess. If the required number of names is then handed in let the association...
...Stafford Northcote yesterday moved in the House of Commons that the House should not permit Mr. Bradlaugh to go through the form of repeating the words of the oath. His motion was carried...