Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Student Council approved a motion last night establishing a Council-run financial advisory bureau for undergraduate organizations...
...contest was debated on a fictitious motion picture censorship case...
Panamanian law, though it forbids the death penalty, provides a specially tough maximum sentence of 35 years for presidential assassins. But the Assembly gave Guizado, once a prominent, well-to-do contractor, only ten years. Then it knocked off a third of that sentence on motion of Deputy Demetrio Martínez, who pointed out earnestly that the crime was Guizado's first offense...
Most of the earth's wobbling is a grand motion that makes its axis describe a 23° cone once every 26,000 years. This precession is caused by the pull of the sun and the moon acting on the slightly nonspherical shape of the earth. Superimposed is a subtler wobble. The axis keeps steady in space, but over an uneven period of about one year, the bulk of the earth moves slightly in relation to the axis...
Gold uses this motion to show that any departure of the earth from its normal axis makes the earth's material flow plastically. The flowing "damps" the motion and keeps it from continuing for more than a small fraction of 1°. Having proved this to his satisfaction. Gold constructed a high, wide and handsome theory...