Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...true that the Supreme Court has spoken; and we have reason to honor our Supreme Court. When this Court sustains the lower court in denying the motion for a new trial based on newly discovered evidence, our first impulse is to take that decision as a final security that the alleged new evidence is worthless. But that impulse would be mistaken. For the Supreme Court has not denied the value of the new evidence...
...records, attached to the automatic Orthophonic machine, run by electric motor. A mechanical "hand" puts on one record after another, up to a dozen. After the twelfth record, the machine automatically stops. The dancers, or listeners-to-sermons, or opera lovers, or synthetic concertgoers, can then, by a simple motion, turn the record magazine about and play the twelve "other sides." The whole score of a musical comedy will thus be made available to the corridors of a girl's boarding school without anyone's shouting, "Fix that phonograph, will you? I'm curling my hair!" Whole...
After the case went to the Supreme Court new evidence was produced in the form of a confession by a member of a notorious criminal gang that the crime was committed by this gang. This was made the basis of another motion for a new trial which was likewise denied by the trial judge and from this ruling another appeal is now pending in the Supreme Court; but once more the Supreme Court will be faced only with the extremely narrow question of whether or not it can say that the trial judge in derying the motion went...
...concerning the possibilities of the broadcasting of moving pictures through space, Professor Chaffee said, "Anything that can be sent over wire can be broadcasted on the radio. It is improbable, but highly conceivable, that in a decade or two, some of the wealthiest people of the country will view motion pictures in their own living rooms. However, the expense of the apparatus will exclude most of the population from this luxury
Following by a year's interval the photographers who snapped Harvard scenery for last season's eventful production of "Brown of Harvard", the motion pictures clan will again invade Cambridge and vicinity. But this time it will be for the glorification of the Harvard man and not the institution...