Word: motions
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patients who had continued to have more than two major fits a month after full doses of anticonvulsant drugs. Results: 1) eleven patients had fewer fits; one had only one in two months; 2) each patient in shock duplicated his natural fit, going through his own peculiar pattern of motion; 3) recovery from electric shock was quicker than from natural seizures, which often incapacitate a man for the day; 4) the remaining natural fits were less severe than before...
...Reporter was not telling British Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank anything he did not know. As the Empire's No. i motion picture producer, distributor and exhibitor (TIME, June 11), he holds the key to U.S. movie profits in the foreign market. (Normally few U.S. pictures begin to make more than expenses until they are shown abroad...
...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
Potentate Without Power. A shrewd, good-tempered administrator, Will Hays brought to his office (chairman of the Motion Pictures Producers and Distributors of America) what Moley calls "a political intelligence as remarkable as any that America has produced in the past 25 years." He was to need every...
Best-sellers have sometimes ridden the crest of a fad, sometimes have been the stone that set the avalanche in motion. Linen dusters fluttered along U.S. highways in 1905, and in their back draft C.N. and A.M. Williamson, specialists in vapid romances of the open road, whose heroines invariably fell for their chauffeurs (all princes in disguise), were swept on to the best-seller list with their The Princess Passes. In 1923 a slim volume with a top-heavy title, Self-Mastery through Conscious Auto-Suggestion, had Americans everywhere murmuring, "Every day in every way, I am getting better...