Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parallax is the apparent motion of a star caused by the earth's revolution around the sun. The nearer the star, the larger the apparent motion...
...fight. A throwback to Stone-Age man is potbellied Tony Galento, Orange, N. J. bartender, who shrugs his chubby shoulders at the fancy art of boxing, scoffs at the modern mode of training. Tony Galento's fighting technique is amazingly simple: His attack is limited to one sweeping motion with his left hand; his defense takes care of itself...
...bullets were round and their motion through the barrel resembled that of the screw ball thrown by Pittsburgh's Cy Blanton, and when the bullet left the end of the barrel, it had a sharper curve than Dizzy Dean's They went straight for a certain distance and then broke sharply like a pitcher nipping the corner of an imaginary plate...
...establish himself as America's number one patriot, movie magnate Carl Laemmle, Sr. recently put himself on record as an advocate of a national "Buy American" campaign in a statement which he describes as "of such general importance that it transcends the limits of a motion picture department...
...physical commotion caused by this report rose a burning question: Was it another proof of Relativity, or did it revive the ether concept, which has no place in a relativistic world? The answer to that question depends on whether the observed effects were due to absolute motion through an ether, or to relativistic motion, the motion of the particles relative to Dr. Ives' apparatus-a point which was not settled last week. In Princeton, Dr. Einstein accepted the experiment as another prop for Relativity. Some of his admirers agreed with him, but some of his critics thought the experiment...