Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...animal act is hampered by the only human member of its cast, a shricking and billous individual who will undoubted drive his canine assistants to the A.S.P.C.A.. The chorus line is a fine group of young ladies when at ease, but when in motion these girls seem to be giving a mass imitation of the mating dance of the Kodiak bear...
...spectacled witness who looked more like a peaceful, carefully dressed clerk than a secret Government agent? For nine years he had led a double life. To his wife, blonde, blue-eyed Eva, Herb Philbrick was a good husband & father (they have four little daughters). To his employers, a Boston motion-picture theater chain, he was a go-getting assistant advertising manager, who knew how to turn out cute promotion pieces and ingratiate himself at newspaper drama desks. To his pastor, the Rev. Ralph Bertholf, he was a pillar of suburban Wakefield's First Baptist Church, a well-favored Sunday...
...West has also dabbled in smellies, but seems to have outgrown them before they ever had a chance. Scented motion pictures were tried at the Swiss Pavilion of the New York World's Fair, one film aired 37 different smells in 35 minutes. One of the technicians responsible, a Swiss named Hans Laube, stayed on in the U.S., but in 1946 disgustedly left for Europe since, he said, there were no takers for the smellies in America...
...hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...
...vote last week the school group refused the Forum's request on a motion introduced by Mayor Michael J. Neville, who characterized Laski as "pro-Communist, anti-Catholic, and anti-religious." The Mayor stated that he was against using public school halls for speeches by "men with Laski's philosophy of government...