Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...feeling continued high at Niagara Falls, and elsewhere. The Senate, on a motion by New York's Copeland, ordered an inquiry by its Commerce Committee. Commander Charles S. Root of the U. S. Coast Guard left Washington to inquire for himself. "Put them in uniform," said editorials throughout the land...
...would be a slap in the face and at the reputation of every honest inventor whose invention Mr. Edison has claimed for himself. In my studies I found that the microphone, the continuous current transformer and the gramophone, the modern disc talking machine, were invented by Berliner, and that motion pictures were the invention of C. Francis Jenkins. But regardless of patent records, and medals granted by that hierarchy of learning the Franklin Institute, to Berliner and Jenkins for these great achievements, Edison nevertheless claims them, or grossly appears to claim them as his own inventions...
...everything-the more one learns the more one realizes there is still more to learn?"; and 32 drawings by the author of various tennis stars in action. These drawings are reminiscent of photographs one has seen of the stars in question, and have therefore caught realistic and characteristic motion...
...some time the Business School at Harvard has been collecting motion pictures for educational use. Particularly has the emphasis at Harvard been laid upon reels that deal with science and scientific processes. Meanwhile at Yale the students of the university have followed the same general paths, but have followed them further. Yale has applied the motion picture to the field of history, and furthermore, she has produced the pictures herself. Then, in the last few months, the Yale University Press has put out a very complete "visual history" of the United States, eventually to be published in fifteen volumes...
...eyes in hospital and laboratory; they noticed that lowering the normal blood pressure by means of sodium nitrite decreased the dizziness and "seasick" feeling of subjects after they had been rapidly rotated. Believing that seasickness is caused by overstimulation of the labyrinth of the ear by the constant changing motion of boats, they decided to give sodium nitrite a public trial. Dr. Hayden had planned a European trip; he made the liner his laboratory. During a tempestuous passage he rounded up 16 tormented travelers. After each had been given a well-known treatment (subcutaneous injections of epinephrine chloride), he started...