Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposition motion demanding the evacuation of Mesopotamia was defeated by 273 to 167 votes. Premier Law said: "The Government has an open mind on the question. . . . Mesopotamia is bound up with the Lausanne Treaty. . . . There is no question of oil and there never has been...
...Fisher '12, coach of the University football team, will be the principal speaker at the annual dinner of the Union Boat Club tonight. Coach Fisher will speak on "Football". His talk will be illustrated by motion pictures of the University games last fall, including the Yale game, the various plays in which he will analyze and explain...
More and more men are being employed in the great business of motion pictures. Consider, for instance, the physical bulk of the motion picture industry in Los Angeles County; the third largest industry in that County is food production, with a weekly payroll in the neighborhood of a quarter million dollars; the second largest industry is petroleum, having a payroll a little larger than a third of a million; surpassing both of these in size is motion pictures with a combined weekly payroll, I am told, approaching a half million dollars. Of course this makes the motion picture industry...
...look upon the motion picture as vastly more than a corner amusement device. It has a far greater significance than that. The following is a statement I have just dictated for the American Legion concerning Education Week...
...began to utter disciplined sounds--to talk; long afterwards they began to fashion crude figures on stone or leather or papyrus--to write. The printing press came and added permanence to the thought of the moment. The typewriter followed--and the phonograph--and the camera. Now to photography, motion has been added. Already in the few short years of their existence they have made possible advantages that from our close viewpoint are almost incalculable. The actual scenes of the signing of the Magna Carta or of the landing of Christopher Columbus, or of the winter at Valley Forge are gone...