Word: motioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Near the end of the meeting Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Pofessor of American History, moved that Harvard's required course load be reduced to three instead of letting one of the present four be taken pass-fail. The motion was defeated by what Dean Ford called "a thunderous voice vote...
Hyman dissuaded Mrs. Blizard from presenting a formal motion calling for Galbraith's removal and postponed action on her request until the committee's next meeting in March...
...censorship movements, and has done his bit to bring the taboos tumbling down. As something of a sequel to two earlier books (The Lion's Share and Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer), he has just published The Great Films: Fifty Golden Years of Motion Pictures...
...familiar calf band of reinforced leather; an aluminum bar runs down the outside of the leg. At the ankle, it is hinged to a semicircular metal yoke that fits loosely around the heel of the shoe. This first hinge-type joint permits up-and-down motion. On the yoke behind the heel is a second joint bearing a metal pin that is screwed into the heel of the shoe. This permits sidewise motion...
...first touchdown play of the game, Dowling pitched out to Hill, in motion to the right. Yale's star halfback galloped toward the sideline, pursued by five Princeton men. Dowling streaked down the opposite side of the field, with a three-step lead on the defensive safety. Hill stopped, turned, and launched a bomb to Dowling, who grabbed the ball on Princeton's 38 and took it all the way home...