Word: motions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conclusions drawn from thousands of "etherdrift" experiments at Mt. Wilson Observatory (10,000 calculations in 1925 alone) were: 1) That, contrary to the assumptions of Dr. Albert Einstein, there is an all pervasive substance in the universe through which all matter moves; 2) That this substance, ether, has a motion imparted to it by moving matter (a motion similar to that of water following the stern of a moving ship). In the case of the earth, the ether is subject to a 95% drag, but slips away again 50%; 3) That the whole solar galaxy (group of planets) is moving...
...lapped idly along the sunny shores of lower Italy. Beneath mystical cypresses and spreading palms, fountains splashed with silver sound, and the scent of many flowers lay upon the air. Sleek and graceful bodies gleamed through the foliage, all at rest yet all poised in the fleetness of arrested motion. It was a spot and a sight created for the pleasure of a multitude, and a multitude, the automobile-loving public of Manhattan and thereabouts, prepared...
Stimultaneous with the building of the first motion picture theater in Harvard Square comes the back ground for a "Great White Way" in Cambridge. Last night Cambridge Street to Inman Square, was illuminated for the first time by a line of large new are lamps on both sides of the street. The lights are constructed by the Cambridge Electric Light Company, and rival the line of lights at the entrance to Worcester by Holy Cross College...
Captain Wilkins is an Australian by his papers and a Nomanslander by his instincts. Educated in Sydney to be an engineer, the world first observed him as a motion picture man, when he secured the first front-line close-ups of the Balkan Wars in 1912. He went with Shackleton to the suburbs of the South Pole. He went north with Stefansson. He was a War aviator. These last three years he has been beating through tropical Australia for the British Museum. Last week Captain Wilkins announced that he would act upon Stefansson's theory that a man may live...
...survey of possible air routes in Florida. During the whole of a flight over the Everglades, from Fort Myers to Miami, Mr. Fokker kept a sharp lookout for alligators. Whenever he saw a group of them, we swooped down over the swampland and Mr. Fokker ground away at his motion picture camera...