Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their technical excellence, lavishness, and slavish emphasis on accuracy, Hollywood's motion pictures can seldom be hailed as either sensitive or powerful. "The Lost Weekend," however, is both of these...
...member of Hasty Pudding, Phoenix, Stylus, the Kalumet Club, the OK Society, and the Western Club, among others), rose from a job as a private secretary to a position at the head of the Tsurmi Steel and Shipbuilding Company. He counts banking, trading, water power developing, and the motion picture industry among his other occupations...
...after the blast as anyone was sufficiently composed to consult the seismograph, the investigators discovered the presence of an entirely new wave which no one had heretofore expected from even the most scrupulous of predictions. Leet christened the new wave the "hydrodynamic wave" because of its similarity to the motion of a ripple on an aqueous surface...
Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...
Next day, when temptation and tempers had cooled, the motion was put to vote. Only one Republican-California's Congressman Bertrand W. Gearhart-joined Senator Ferguson. By a vote of 6-to-2, the committee let Winston Churchill relax...