Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Republican Policy Chairman Robert Taft agreed. Six Republicans and six Democrats agreed to file a motion to order a D.P. bill out of the Judiciary Committee. If successful, it would be the first time a bill had been pried out of a Senate committee since 1932. It would also be the first real setback McCarran and McKellar had met since they set out to crack the whip over the Senate...
...last week, Kerans decided to run the Communist gauntlet. At 10:12 p.m. he gave the order to sail. The Amethyst nosed out into the channel astern of a Yangtze freighter. At 10:23 p.m., the Communists discovered the Amethyst in motion when the steamer ahead of her was challenged by flares from the shore. The Communists opened up with heavy artillery and machine-gun fire. The Amethyst returned the fire. In London, the Admiralty received a message from the Amethyst: "Am under heavy fire and hit." Ten minutes later she messaged: "Still under heavy fire." At midnight the moon...
...afraid of the plan," shouted Fair Dealer Mike Monroney of Oklahoma. "If we can accomplish this trick of high producers' prices and low consumers' prices without the outpouring of billions of dollars from the U.S. Treasury, then we have discovered something as great as . . . perpetual motion...
Science speaks of few absolutes. One of the few is absolute zero: -273.16 centigrade. At this temperature, the haphazard motion of the molecules (the action called heat) is wholly stilled. Close to this point of death-still cold, matter acts in strange ways. Liquid helium climbs out of containers; the electrical resistance of metals disappears. Because scientists see stranger phenomena the closer they get to absolute zero, experimenters like to imagine working their way down to the very bottom of the temperature scale...
Movie Crazy (Harold Lloyd: Motion Picture Sales Corp.) signals the 1949 re-issue of seven Harold Lloyd films, including such belly-laughs as The Freshman, Grandma's Boy, and Safety Last. Movie Crazy (1932) is not one of Lloyd's best, but compared with most recent film comedies, it sparkles like vintage champagne...