Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Council approved a motion by Sir Austen Chamberlain to invite the U. S. to send a representative to a projected assembly of the nations now adhering to the World Court, at which the reservations set forth by the U. S. Senate (TIME, Feb. 8, THE CONGRESS) as the conditions of U. S. adherence to the World Court might be amicably considered. Sir Austen called attention to the fact that this proposal is designed to speed up action by the Court nations upon the U. S. reservations, since if the whole matter should be thrashed out by diplomatic notes among...
...surgeon motioned to his assistants to complete preparations for the operation. Graduate surgeons and doctors, students and pressmen drew back out of the way, craned their heads forward to watch the technique. The surgeon grasped hold of the child's crippled leg with his powerful fingers, flexed the knee, rotated the thigh, brought it up and then down with a motion as slow and tremendous as that of a caterpillar tractor. There was a snapping of adhesions, a sickening cracking. The two legs were together, were bandaged into immobility with the hips. The surgeon straightened up. His blue eyes, which...
...oozes into the peritoneal cavity. Fatal peritonitis results. In intestinal obstruction the intestines may be blocked by the caked products of digestion or they may be blocked by a band, a twist, a growth or an impaction of partly absorbed food. The cathartic enters and stimulates peristalsis, the evacuating motion of the intestines. There circular muscles contract progressively, and at the same time there is a wavelike motion forward. This activity may be seen in certain very thin persons. It resembles greatly the finger movements in milking a cow's teats. In intestinal obstruction such cathartic-induced peristalsis pounds...
...London, where is placed the main office of the Travel Department with a continental branch in Paris. The latter was instituted especially for the convenience of the American tours which are to take place this summer. The Commission of Sports is in Paris: the Bureau of Scientific Motion Picture Films in Zurich, and a Bureau of exchange of books and publications in Warsaw...
...Lauro de Bosis, of the University of Rome and Royal Commissioner of the Modern Italian Art Exhibit in America, will give an illustrated lecture, Thursday evening at 8:15 o'clock, on Ancient and Modern Italy in the New Lecture Hall. The lecture will be in connection with motion pictures on the subject...