Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...flatly: "No arbitration!" Each side tried to present its plan in such a guise that the other would accept it. Each time the other side refused to be "fooled." Finally one of the operators moved to adjourn sine die, subject to call. The miners refused to second the motion. So one of the operators seconded it. Then both miners and operators voted to adjourn...
...fashionable to know anything about it." Thus Mr. F. C. Hears, seasoned staff correspondent of the famed Toronto Globe, publicly admitted the bewilderment of the gentlemen of the press after five days of impassioned debate by members of the Canadian House of Representatives upon the "Want of Confidence" motion introduced by Conservative Leader Meighen (TIME, Jan. 18) for the purpose of forcing the Government of Liberal Leader Premier King to resign...
Amid an awful silence, the Fascist majority instantly passed the Premier's motion. The more circumspect Aventines, realizing what was going to follow in a moment, bolted from the Chamber. Those who did not immediately flee, were assaulted by the Fascist deputies, as soon as they finished voting. Many a lock of hair was literally torn from Aventine heads. Many a Fascist boot literally propelled Aventines through the wide portals of the Chamber and down the stairs...
...Naval expedition -making ready balloons, dirigibles and airplanes for aerial observations. Soon after lunch on Jan. 14 their three important minutes came to these men. Cables began whisking the news back to civilization. The objectives and seeming successes of science had been: Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame-fringed corona-good photographs obtained with cameras up to 62 ft. long. Data to check Einstein's theory of "bent light," obtainable by photographing stars near the sun with a twin-lens camera- doubtful photographs taken. Data on lunar...
Colonial--"Stella Dallas", a motion picture...