Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Premier Orlando opened the debate for the Opposition. Amid frequent and angry interruptions he criticised adversely the Premier's recent iron-hand policy (TIME, Jan. 19), and for the rest contented himself with expatiating upon the contents of the withdrawn motion...
Final debate on the bill passed off without untoward incident. On a motion supported by several Fascist Deputies representing workmen, a provision for plural voting for certain classes of men was deleted. The objection to this section of the bill was that its effect would be to reduce the suffrage of the workingmen...
...began with fundamentals, comprehensible to the lay mind, explaining wave-motion by slides and motion pictures of a number of experiments. He showed the properties of water waves and similar mechanical waves. He showed the properties of sound waves. From these, he went on to show the properties of the different but analogous waves of light. All this was to demonstrate the principle on which one of his great inventions-which he has labored 40 years in perfecting-is based...
...Scientific American, now of Popular Science Monthly. A whole series of scientific writers contribute a whole series of articles, readable and comprehensive, profusely illustrated under five major headings comprising groups of special histories: 1) TRANSPORTATION : railroads, waterpower, electric cars, automobiles airplanes; 2) COMMUNICATION: printing, typewriting, telegraphy, telephony, radio, photography, motion pictures, phonographs; 3) POWER: steam, electricity, illumination; 4) EXPLOITING RESOURCES : iron and steel, copper and "nobler metals," oil, coal, lumbering, cotton, agriculture; 5) LABOR SAVING DEVICES: automatic tools, pneumatic devices, sewing machines, shoemaking machines...
...Edgar P. Hill of Philadelphia lamented modern modes in U. S. education. Said he: "We are missing the mark. We are on a sort of merry-go-round. We are in motion and there is plenty of excitement and jazz music, but we are getting nowhere...