Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Every Wednesday night during the winter term lectures, including several travel talks were held in Harvard Hall. These together with a number of motion picture shows have continued to draw large crowds every week. Addresses on science and art, which we had arranged, for two Friday evenings each month again proved popular...
...basket turns; slowly but steadily, with the measured pace of an ancient pendulum. Half way round to the right, then, back a full turn to the left, a never ceasing motion. Visitors that it is bound to slow up and finally watch it with fascination, expecting stop, but the basket continues to swing, just as it has done for the last six months...
...basket itself is a piece of native work from Borneo which the Museum received last October. It was hung, with many similar objects, in the Pacific Islands room of the Museum for exhibition. Its turning motion was noted immediately and at first thought to be merely the result of the impetus caused by its installation. The strange turning continued, however, and gradually drew the attention of an increasing number of scholars and professors...
...movement of the basket is due to vibration. The vibrations in this case are supposed to come from the Cambridge power paint, and the basket is assumed to be exactly at the vibration point. Its balance is so nice, moreover, that the slightest disturbance might conceivably keep it in motion. But even this theory, exemplifying as it does the most intricate reaches of modern science, strains the credulity of the ignorant layman...
...doctor took a pair of forceps in his hand. That hand must not tremble. It must pull the needle straight out in one swift motion. The forceps must not grope for its grip on the needle end. The screech of slipping steel would sound the tiny patient's death. He must not jiggle the needle, else its embedded tip would tear the thin cells of the brain and kill the patient. With micrometer precision he gripped with the forceps the needle end. With ramrod straightness he pulled. The needle came out. Except for a little clot of blood...