Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meeting of the Directors of the Cambridge Chapter, American Red Cross, held on March 24, the following motion was offered by Judge Almy...
Sixteen colleges will be represented in this meet which will be held at the Twenty-Second Regiment Armory. This is the first indoor intercollegiate meet to be held since the war, but a motion was passed at a meeting last Saturday of the I. C. A. A. A. A. to make it an annual event. For the first time in many years, there will be a Freshman race in which eight colleges will compete. This will be a medley race, one man running 880 yards, a second 440, a third 220, and a fourth a mile...
...place-kick following a touchdown, the result of which is at least partly determined by luck, should be the margin of victory in so many games. Two other problems are that of "clipping" or cutting down from behind, and that of whether men should be allowed to be in motion when the ball is put into play. Opinion is not united on these questions, as there are some who believe that clipping should be allowed in certain cases; it is clear, however, that the meaning of the rules should be freed from all ambiguity...
...years of service on the Federal Bench, at $7,500 a year, and devote all of his time to his work as National Commissioner of baseball, at $50,000 a year, following close upon the resignation of Postmaster-General' Hays to take up a highly paid position in the motion picture industry, throws into relief one of the most serious questions of the present day. More and more is it becoming the practice for officers of the government, with or without reisgning, to participate in private activities. In some cases the national prominence a man obtains by his official position...
...foregoing must cause the ghosts of the old showmen to shriek with envy. How the owner of the "Great Monohippic Show," would have loved that writer. It is hard to believe that such an art nearly perished. If the motion pictures can really bring it back, then, whatever the cost, we demand the motion pictures...