Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into a less dense medium, causing it to appear bent. A spot that appears to be white upon a black background is actually gray when seen on a white background. A projectile shot vertically upward from the earth really follows a curved course in space, due to the sidewise motion imparted to it by the rotation of the earth...
Cecil B. de Mille, motion picture director: " My yacht was seized in Los Angeles Harbor by Federal prohibition agents...
...Living Room of the Union this evening at 7.30 o'clock. This will be the second time that the Union has provided this form of entertainment for its members. The size and enthusiasm of the audiences tonight will largely determine whether or not the Union will continue to present motion pictures. The entertainment will be open only to members of the Union...
...novelty, the Great War came on, making all imaginative efforts seem thin and pale. Except to get away from the thought of violence it was almost difficult to read a novel between 1914 and 1918. By the time we were sick of war and its terrific drama, the motion picture came, also bringing the measure of stimulation. With all that can be said against the screen play, the fact remains that it has brought imaginative food to the millions and millions of those who never had it heretofore...
...less stringently. At the same time, there will always be a place for the novel in literature and life, so long as life is lived by story-loving human beings, and literature is produced by them. Signs are, indeed, not lacking that as the motor car, the airplane, the motion picture, cease to be novelties, and the war, for the present at least, seems a theme too sickening to dwell on overmuch, the novel is returning to some of the old function as the chief stimulus to those who feel the imaginative force waning...