Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...requiring long (and expensive) landing fields. W. R. Turnbull, Canadian, announced last week that he had invented a successful variable pitch propeller, by the use of which planes can rise more quickly, can even back up. The angle of the blades on his propeller may be changed while in motion, thereby affecting the strength of his motor like a shift of gears on an automobile. The Canadian Air Force tested with optimism...
...speech. Each man, according to the parliamentary system, upon entering the room chooses his side, the "ayes" placing themselves on the right hand of the chairman, L. T. Grimm '29, who will preside in the speaker's chair. Cheek, representing the affirmative, will open the debate by putting the motion before the house. As mover of the motion, he also has the privilege of speaking last. After he has concluded, representatives of either side speak alternately, having been first recognized by the chair...
...Each oarsman of the rowing squad will have a mother among us" said Mrs. Roger Merriman addressing the Harvard Dames yesterday. A motion was passed that each member of the crew be invited to tea where they will be personally cautioned. "Every one should guard against the horrid colds' and coughs that result from wet feet" she said...
...Bucher, of the Bureau of Commercial Economics, an international organization for the promotion of mutual understanding between nations, will give a lecture illustrated by motion pictures on "Germany Since the War" at 7.15 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Living Room of the Union. He saw service overseas during the World War, and after the Armistice spent much time in Central Europe doing relief work. He is also a newspaper correspondent...
...spoke last night in the Living Room of the Union on the customs and habits of the various tribes of Liberia, the country in which he, at the head of the Harvard Medical Expedition, spent most of his time during the past two years. He accompanied his lecture with motion pictures, showing in detail the work of the expedition...