Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the fashion from time to time for historians to fulminate against the theory that extremes generate their opposites. Yet from a pragmatic standpoint at least, this pendulum-like motion of events seems surely to hold true. It seems therefore hardly improbable that in its broadest aspects the German Republic was the direct result of the German Monarchy, moving as much toward radicalism as the empire held to the standard of conservatism...
...example, if two elastic bodies collide at sufficiently high velocities, the laws of elasticity fail completely and the resulting motion is indeterminate. Recent researches enable us to state that such bodies may oscillate in a stable way near to a periodic state...
Radio Television. Before the St. Louis section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, Consulting Engineer Ernst Frederik Werner Alexanderson of the General Electric Co. and the Radio Corporation of America, described his progress in the projection of motion pictures by radio. A central difficulty, the translation of optical images into electric current capable of impelling bands of ether waves, had already been surmounted by experimenters with the photoelectric cell and amplifier, used in motionless television and telephotography. Dr. Alexanderson's feat was to utilize a beam of light (which in motionless telephotography has from 2 to 20 minutes...
David Lloyd George: "Last week, with Dame Lloyd George and our daughter Megan, I entered a cinema. Said I as the film Ben Hur unreeled: 'I have never before watched a motion picture except at private projections in my own house...
...chorus and principals behaved with a stolid propriety that left vivacity entirely to the impish lines and nimble melodies?until Winthrop Ames took hold. He stages Gilbert and Sullivan in the spirit of its verses and music. His characters skip, bounce, flit, dance. They put the show in motion, bring it to life. It is no longer the sly satire of Gilbert peeking through a tricky melody from behind grave actors. The Ames people are as ridiculous, as blastingly satirical as the lines and music themselves. Hence, The Pirates of Penzance achieves success equal to that of lolanthe...