Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that point, Weizmann got a warning. Said his friend Lloyd George: "You have no time to waste. Today the world is like the Baltic before a frost ... it is still in motion. But if it gets set, you will have to batter your heads against the ice blocks and wait for a second thaw." The warning was almost too late. In 1917 the hard-pressed British had had good reason to win Jewish good will, especially in the U.S. and the Austro-Hungarian empire. After the war they had equally good reasons, they thought, to keep their promises...
...During the period he has been president of the Motion Picture Association of America, the public relations of the industry have declined alarmingly. Mr. Johnston's contributions to building fine relations between the public and our business have consisted mostly of turning the offices of the M.P.A.A. into a personal press bureau for Eric Johnston...
...motion-picture industry has survived many misfortunes, and I am confident that it will survive Eric Johnston...
With a series of slow-motion pictures, Storer proves that birds use all the aerodynamic tricks that man builds into his airplanes-and a few more besides. A bird's "propellers," explains Storer, are the big feathers at the ends of its wings. They are perfect airfoils with thick leading edges and thin trailing edges. When the bird flaps its wings downward, the "prop feathers" separate, twist to assume the proper "angle of attack," and act like propeller blades. They generate a forward force that pulls the wing forward, and the bird with...
...downstroke, the wing is far forward. The bird pulls it back and up. This "rowing" motion against the air gives the bird an extra forward drive...