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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debate in the Commons was preceded by an almost unanimous outburst of cheering, which greeted Austen Chamberlain as he entered the assembly and proceeded to submit the motion for ratification. In the crowded balcony, the U.S. and Belgian Ambassadors and the Councilor of the German Embassy were present; they followed the ensuing speeches with eager attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Chamberlain Day | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...entire week it seethed and bubbled with debate, the character of which was such that no less than 120 hopelessly conflicting amendments were offered and howled down by everyone not of the faction interested. At length M. Painlevé called for a tentative "vote of confidence" by offering a motion to close the general debate and begin debate upon the provisions of the bill in detail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: More Babel | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

Lord Jim. Conrad's great novel of cowardice has been done into a pretty good motion picture. It should have been a great picture and the manufacturers have only themselves to blame. The usually expert Percy Marmont rather underscales the potentialities of the leading character. The rest is too often routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Nov. 30, 1925 | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...from talking with a ship-news reporter. He had seen Dr. Alexis Carrel (Nobel Prize Winner in 1912), and he had seen a piece of tissue from the heart of a chicken which Dr. Carrel cut from a live bird in 1913. The tissue is still alive and growing. Motion pictures have been taken of its processes of development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Physical Immortality | 11/30/1925 | See Source »

...Class Luncheon Association will serve a buffet supper at the Harvard Club of Boston on Thursday, November 19, at 7.30 o'clock. Slow motion pictures of the Harvard-Yale Football Game of 1922 will be shown. Kindly notify Carl V. Chandler at National City Co. of Boston (Maine 8100) before 5.00 o'clock tonight if you can attend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS OF 1923 | 11/18/1925 | See Source »

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