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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...model Rolls-Royce-the "Phantom"-appeared last week at the Springfield, Mass., Rolls-Royce U. S. factory site. It has six brakes. 55 points for lubrication (all operated by single motion from the driver's seat.) and a silent, reciprocating engine of one-third more power than the present "Forty-Fifty" Rolls-Royce. These represent the first distinct changes in Rolls-Royce models in 15 years, said Chairman Henry J. Fuller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Phantom | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...trio of lectures on the motion picture industry this week will complete the series of fifteen which have been conducted in the course of Business Policy at the Harvard Business School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST MOTION PICTURE LECTURES WILL BE GIVEN THROUGH WEEK | 4/25/1927 | See Source »

...failure of his first marriage, but regained a balance fortified by the experience. It taught him the relation of self-expansion and self-obliteration, the phases by which, like two legs constantly passing each other, mankind has marched-Roman power, Christian abnegation; Renaissance, Reformation; hayfoot, strawfoot. He renewed the motion of his days, saying: "The stream of life, like running water, can purify itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Pericles of Provincetown* | 4/18/1927 | See Source »

...attacking the strongholds of education is shown in the faltering announcement that Harvard University is to be the keystone of the Nationwide tour being made by John McCormick, general manager of West Coast production of First National Pictures, in an effort to bring college men of promise into motion picture work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First National Pictures Corporation Offers Chance to Prospective Stars--Tests Will Be Held on April 26 | 4/16/1927 | See Source »

...Supreme Court, strange to say, was not passing on the value of that evidence. It limited itself to a special question. It enquired only whether Judge Thayer is open to judicial criticism for denying the motion for a new trial. The question whether judge Thayer, assuming him to be an intelligent and conscientious judge, could conceiviably have regarded the new evidence as immaterial. If so, the Court would not order a new trial, even though it may have believed to a man that the new evidence was worth bringing before a jury. The Supreme Court was simply unwilling to declare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEGAL FLAWS ARE EVIDENT IN TRIALS OF SACCO-VANZETTI | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

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