Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Candidates Row last week there were several minor gestures, one major motion...
...TAMING OF THE SHREW?Shakespeare mortalized in the manner of motion picture farce (TiME...
Next morning there arrived inopportunely at Vienna famed U. S. negroid danseuse Josephine Baker-in figure like a long string bean, in color a prepossessing tawny chocolate, and in motion either sinuously undulant or mechanistically "jazz mad." Would she, whom smart Paris has huzzahed at the Folies-Bergere and toasted at her own night club, Chez Josephine Baker, be rudely welcomed among Viennese as is the hardy pilgrim who ventures among disapproving skunks? Prudently a strong police escort was accorded Miss Baker between the station and her hotel. Thereafter, although a few students skulked in the vicinity for some hours...
...eleven cities. Craning their necks from seats in the very centre of these imitation universes, they will watch their professors speed up eternity, compel sun, moon and stars to step lively, giving their classes in a few minutes demonstrations of changes that take hundreds of centuries. The gyroscopic motion of the earth (26,000 years) will be reduced to four minutes. The earth's swing around the sun (one year) will be crowded into 7.3 seconds or slowed down to seven minutes to make it easier...
During his speech Commander Ellsberg had described in detail the sinking of the S-4 and of the S-51 and had told of the hardships encountered in the salvage of the latter ship, following which motion pictures illustrating the work had been shown...