Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...horsepower aeroplane motor is being installed at the Newell Boathouse to keep the water in the tank in motion. The management hopes in this way to make the blade work for the oarsmen a little more natural. The work on the motor will be completed this week...
...After the defeat of the Conservative Ministry in the House of Commons on a motion of no confidence (TIME, Jan. 28), Premier Baldwin taxied to Buckingham Palace and tendered the resignations of his Cabinet to the King and advised His Majesty to ask James Ramsay Macdonald, Labor Leader of the Opposition, to form a Cabinet. The King accepted the Cabinet's resignations and took immediate steps to summon Mr. Macdonald to the Palace. Thus was the usual procedure of an outgoing Cabinet rigidly followed...
...which took place in this House last night, the Government have tendered their resignation to the King and his Majesty has been graciously pleased to accept it." Mr. Jack Jones, "inimitable Laborite," said: "Thank God for that!" Premier Baldwin then moved "that this House adjourn until Feb. 24." The motion was passed and Conservative Government went out of office, although according to custom the Conservative Ministers remained at their posts until relieved by the incoming Labor Ministers...
Moving Pictures. Photographs at the rate of 300,000 a minute?31 times as fast as those taken by the slow-motion camera?are being made at Shoeburyness, England, by the British Ordnance Department, to examine the impact of shells on armor plate. The camera weighs two tons, and shows how golf balls and other hard objects are flattened and pressed out of shape when struck and in flight...
...Harvard sport which has been perhaps more notable for lean years than any other during the past decade; that is track. Stars there have been scattered through the decade, but lonely stars without even good, average settings. A kind of vicious circle of cause and effect was set in motion. Harvard was not considered much of a "track" college, track was relegated to a quasi position between the major and the minor sports, and secondary school track stars were magnetized away by the prowess of Yale or Princeton or Cornell...