Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because "one of the greatest weapons in the hands of a minority to prevent bad legislation . . . is the roll-call"; the microtasimeter, for detecting slight changes of temperature; the world's first "talking-machine"; carbon filaments for incandescent electric light bulbs; the "Edison effect," an electric valve; the motion-picture camera ; metal filaments for bulbs; the taximeter ; an electric street car and numerous minor contrivances that have brought the number of U.S. patents in his name to over...
...British delegation introduced a motion to exempt from the consideration of the Conference warships, submarines, airships, airplanes and tanks, all of which, on account of their size, cannot be sold secretly and therefore can be controlled by a system of licenses. Referred to committee...
Morning, noon, night, midnight? the stream of cranks in and out of newspaper offices is in perpetual motion. Occasionally, one of them succeeds in having a young cub sent out to hear his tale...
Evidently the attacks on the patriotism of the International Council of Women which met recently in Washington have whetted rather than diminished its zeal for reform. The Council plans a five-year campaign to improve motion pictures artistically, morally and educationally. A committee of eight women will concentrate on a few large producing centers, and the work will be extended as soon as ways can be found to assist in purging films of objectionable features...
...always involves a desire to undertake more than can be accomplished, and the International Council is no exception to the rule. Even by "concentrating on a few large centers of production" the women can do no more than utter a few feeble protests at what they consider wrong. The motion picture industry, is too strongly intrenched to yield, unless it encounters more serious opposition than eight women can muster. The International Council is making a brave gesture, but like most brave gestures, it is also quite futile...