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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...WOULD RATHER TRAVEL A LOT DOING ODD JOBS THAN BE A DEPENDABLE INGENUE BUT I LOVE THE THEATRE ANYWHERE WON'T MAKE MUCH MONEY BUT MAYBE I'LL WRITE STOP THE UNIVERSE AROUND US A GRAND BOOK A FAREWELL TO ARMS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL NOVEL THINK THE MOTION PICTURE A GRAND MEDIUM FOR ART PRODUCING THE MOST COLOSSALLY MORONIC RESULTS STOP MY MOTHER AND FATHER FIGURED MOST SPECTACULARLY IN THIS STORY WHEN. . . ." (Prior to her birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 23, 1929 | 12/23/1929 | See Source »

...suggested during the meeting that a committee be appointed to undertake the purchase of a reliable Ping Pong outfit. For some time the discussion raged, as the issue seemed an important one. Finally the motion was overthrown. The winning argument was that a Ping-Pong set would make too much noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUSINESS STUDENTS CLUB WAGES WAR ON PING PONG | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...them in deflance. Mrs. E. Linden, Radcliffe '30, Miss Lingerfelter. Radcliffe '31, and C. W. Lightbody 1G of Toronto University and Worcester College, Oxford, will take the floor. Professor Garrod of Merton College, Oxford, has kindly consented to preside. As the debate is open to the public and the motion is to be thrown open to the house, Back Bay is expected to be present in full force to back the Radcliffe cohort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English and Radcliffe Debaters in Argument About the Versatility of Plymouth Rock--Debate in Agassiz House | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...boxlike, ether-wave instrument invented and played upon (motion of the hands before the instrument affects the ether waves, regulates pitch, tone, volume) by Russian Leon Theremin (TIME, Sept. 30). His recent sale of his patent to the Radio Corp. of America accounts for the new joint name given the instrument...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sokoloff's Choice | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

...join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing ice changes the air foil to such an extent that the wing no longer exerts a lifting power in forward motion. This trouble and decreased visibility due to fog or snow will bring down the best of pilots. The airmail route between Cleveland and New York is considered the worst in the country, with few landing fields, rugged and forest-covered terrain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Dec. 16, 1929 | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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