Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weapon of offence. But medical science has more than kept pace with disease. At a dinner of prominent physicians it was possible to state that the man of today can reasonably expect ten years more of life than the man of a century and a half ago. The motion might be in order to substitute "four-score" for the famous "three score...
Perhaps the greatest piece of constructive work initiated by the Union this year was the development of a series of vocational talks with the purpose of helping undergraduates to choose their careers intelligently. Before the project was finally put in motion, however, its entire management was taken over by the University authorities, within whose province it more naturally falls...
William Randolph Hearst: " At a convention of motion picture men in New York, I said in a speech: 'I have heard a good deal in the publishing business about the necessity of writing down to the public taste and I have never found that necessity to exist.'" Lord Asquith: " I wrote an article for a charity of Paisley, my constituency, in which I declared: ' Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life...
MERTON OF THE MOVIES ? Glenn Hunter and Florence Nash, tenderfoot and a sourdough of Hollywood, soften many a dour face with a satire on "the art of motion pictures...
...awarding of degrees, yet it is conceivable that more than five seniors not already members of Phi Beta Kappa will receive degrees with special distinction. It seems a pity that an arbitrary limit should admit some and exclude others whose records show them to be equally deserving. A motion now pending would eliminate that fault. These are small matters, but everything that strengthens the University's confidence in the justice of the chapter's election system is a gain for the value...