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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fairbanks replied: "Your touching wire received. But too late. Jo-Jo was the toughest motion picture actor we have ever eaten. Suggest you take the matter up with Equity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: may 20, 1929 | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...problem of making talking movies in natural colors is not yet solved, but last week Lloyd Ancile Jones of Eastman Kodak Laboratories told the Society of Motion Picture Engineers that Eastman had evolved a process for tinting whole scenes of talkies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eastman Colors | 5/20/1929 | See Source »

...strangers must not intrude. Venturing once to try for memoranda of his face, I took an artist to his room. The courtesy of Sophocles was too stately to allow him to turn my friend away, but he seated himself in a shaded window, and kept his head in constant motion. When my frustrated friend had departed, Sophocles told me, though without direct reproach, of two sketches which had before been surreptiously made,--one by the pencil of a student in his class, another in oils by a lady who had followed him on the street...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idiosyncracies of Professor Sophocles, Famous Harvard Scholar, of Last Century Narrated by Professor Palmer | 5/14/1929 | See Source »

...self-winding wrist watch a "perpetual motion" watch that winds itself, somewhat on the principle of the pedometer, is to be given free to a student of the University next month, according to an announcement by the Perpetual Self-Winding Watch Co., New York City, manufacturers of this startling new invention...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advertising Contest Opens | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

...watch is described as "the first practical solution of the perpetual motion problem" by the inventor. Tests have proved that it is an accurate time-place; possibly even more accurate than the ordinary stem-winder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advertising Contest Opens | 5/13/1929 | See Source »

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