Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge Medina commented that he supposed Dennis' protests stemmed from his unfamiliarity with the law. But after an hour-during which he was once forced to leave the bench to quiet the uproar-Medina consented to listen to a motion for acquittal based on whether the Justice Holmes doctrine of "clear and present danger" applied to the case (see above). Next day Defense Attorney Abraham J. Isserman argued, in effect, that the defendants were being denied "the right to engage in political activity...
Both sides agreed that it should be made abundantly clear to students that they were not being compelled to pay the Council toll. The final vote was 6 to 0 in favor of the Houghteling motion, after the other had been defeated...
Professor Birch's laboratory has become a center of research on the nature of the materials of the earth. He has delved into underground conditions of high temperature, chemical solutions, and earthquake wave motion...
...pandemonium was saved for the old masters. Trumpeter Oran "Hot Lips" Page's "émotion authentique" blues soon had them breaking their hands for joy. Grizzled Sidney Bechet, who has been nozzling out New Orleans classics on clarinet and soprano sax since 1911, got a Toscanini's wild and respectful ovation, And when Yardbird Parker cut loose, puffing his tenor sax like a big cigar, the zazous drooled, twitched and finally screamed...
...husband, was not his father. Reminding her son that she was forced to marry old Panisse because she was unwed and was carrying him, Mile, Desmazis defends herself well, and delivers to her priggish son what I am sure is one of the most astounding counter-offensive in motion-pictures. It is approximately: "You forget, Cesariot, that you, yes you, kept me from having the other children I wanted. If it had not been for you, I would not have had to marry a man 30 years older than...