Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape the rule. Governor Parker of Louisiana declared that if a single signature was attached to the memorial, he would resign from the Conference. Governor Silzer of New Jersey moved to add that "we believe there can be no real enforcement" of prohibition while present conditions exist. His motion was tabled...
With great enthusiasm the motion was carried, and letters sent to President Coolidge and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge...
...ambitions and failings so similar to those whose troubles and difficulties he has here so deftly and sympathetically portrayed. And yet--Heaven and the author be thanked-there is none of that thick and cloying sentimentality which so often appears in play where tragedy underlies comedy, and of which motion picture scenario writers are such ardent devotees. No praying mothers, weeping sisters, or sons who fight their way back from the lowest depths of degradation for the love of a maid are here; but fine, whole-some men and women who are able to meet both fortune and the reverse...
...field at least a quarter of a mile square, to make possible more accurate results. The experiments have to do with rays of light thrown through the large tube. Light is believed to consist of ether waves. When a body moves through a medium which is itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current. If the medium is still, it moves past the moving body at a measurable speed. Thus, if ether is motionless, it should be possible...
...Back" a moving picture scenario written by a student in the University of California, has just been declared the winning manuscript in a competition for a $1000 Scholarship Award, offered six months ago by Carl Laemmle, President of the Universal Pictures Corporation to students of American Colleges for the motion picture scenario of the greatest merit. In announcing the award, Mr. Laemmle declared that "The Throw Back" had been selected from among some thousand scenarios by the committee of award because it was "the most original, the best written, and the most adapted to the requirements of the Universal Studio...