Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glasses, sauntered jauntily up to the witness stand. As the applause quickened, he turned, bowing and smiling to his expectant audience, maneuvering his profile skillfully in the fusillade of exploding flashbulbs. With forefinger dramatically outstretched, he raised his hand for the oath. To the first, identifying question he replied: "Motion picture actor-I hope...
...life alone in her own glass coach, she rode to Westminster to open Parliament with her father and mother. His Majesty's Government and Loyal Opposition joined forces to wish her luck and congratulate her on her "unerring graciousness." Communist William Gallacher refused to join the motion. "I cannot forget," he said, "that on the day this engagement was announced, thousands of Greek citizens were thrown into the prison camps of the reactionary Royalist Greek Government," but he was soon shouted down with cries of "sit down...
Announced last week was a new motion-picture camera so fast that it can take movies at 11,000,000 frames a second-more than ten times as fast as any previous machine. Developed by the University of Rochester's Dr. Brian O'Brien and Gordon G. Milne, the new camera produces a picture that is a ragged blur, but good enough for scientific studies and measurements. A bullet, photographed by this slow-motion technique, travels only an inch in a minute...
Born That Way. When Chappuis fades back to pass, he is a slow-motion study in coolness and concentration. To anxious Michigan rooters, it seems an agonizingly long time before he throws. Crisler, after 25 years of coaching (at Chicago, Minnesota, Princeton and Michigan), places Chappuis on the same lofty pedestal with deadeye Benny Friedman, a Michigan immortal of the 19203. Says Fritz: "You can't get much better than that...
...comparatively tricky plays helped whet the spectators' interest. One was for the left tackle to go into motion, run behind the quarterback, take the ball from him, and round right end hopefully. Penalties existed for tackling low, so if the man got started speedily, his chances of making a touchdown weren...