Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jones is suing a California motion picture company for $150,000 for exploiting the name of her late husband, John Luther ("Casey") Jones, engineer-hero of the singing rails (TIME...
...became "Our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Douglas McGarel, Baron Hailsham, our Chancellor of Great Britain . . . and our right trusty and well beloved Counselor Stanley Baldwin, our Prime Minister and First Lord of our Treasury." The warrant was given "of our most especial grace, certain knowledge and mere motion." The potent conclusion read...
Next day the Municipal Council of Frankfurt gave striking proof that in the new Socialist republic of Germany there is free speech and freedom of the stage. By a vote of 47 to 35 the Council rejected a motion ordering that the farce Marriages Are Made in Heaven should be closed by the police. Meanwhile the drama critics of leading Frankfurt dailies exhorted their readers against further throwing of bombs in the name of Goodness and Piety. True Christians, they pointed out, ought to follow the sublime and nonviolent example of Christ...
Whether it will do so or not, no one can say. The success of the new organization depends largely on the past and future prowess of C. Francis Jenkins, who invented "the first practical motion picture projector," and whose laboratories have recently been devoted to televisionary experiments. The announcement of the new capitalization came at a time when Wall Street was talking of nothing but the break in the market and made therefore less stir in financial circles than it would have a week before...
Beset by doubts, historical philosophers base their theories on one certitude. Civilizations are never static. They are always in motion, creatively toward stronger outpourings of their spirit or destructively toward decay and dissolution. Thus Western civilization, with its vaulting expression in Gothic cathedrals, Beethoven, da Vinci, Einstein, Manhattan's sun-smitten towers, is either seething onward toward mightier transactions, more luminous cultural & scientific manifestations, or suffering the nervous, senile disintegration which desolated Rome, Egypt, ancient China...