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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time a Crum protégé reaches Allentown High, he should know the coach's system of "give-and-go" and "flooding the center-lane." Crum shows motion pictures to illustrate new plays, takes his players to Philadelphia to watch topnotch college teams. Before every game, a scout (who works at it full time) reports on the rival team's good & bad points. Last season 35,000 fans crammed into Allentown's gym to watch Crum's team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Champs by Crum | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Schrödinger believes that his new theory "should express everything in field physics." It should also, he says, reduce Einstein's theory to a special case, just as Einstein's theory reduced Newton's laws of motion. Like all such high-flown scientific theories, Schrödinger's consists of a complex equation expressed in mathematical symbols. To the nonscientific, it looks like incomprehensible doodling (see cut of theory in Schrödinger's own hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein Stopped Here | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Emphasizing that the democratic concept carries with it a great amount of intellectual responsibility for the common man, he deplored the present low standards of motion picture and radio entertainment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Richards Hits at Shabby Standard Of Movies, Radio | 2/7/1947 | See Source »

Memorable nickleodeon flickers and documentary films are included in a six-program motion pictures series opening February 11 at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall with "A Nous La Liberte," "ballad of the liberties not permitted by the modern world," and "People of Cumberland," a story of education in the Tennessee hills...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: French Film to Open HLU Flicker Schedule | 2/4/1947 | See Source »

...Japan's ancient national sport, in which specially bred-and-fed giants, clad only in jundoshi (breechclouts) and their traditional topknots, grunt and tug interminably, like slow-motion dancing bears. Object:' to force one's opponent down so that some part of his body above the knee touches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Theory & Practice | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

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