Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dawn ate a last supper of potato salad, sausage, cold cuts, black bread and tea. At 9 p.m., the prison lights were dimmed. At 10:45, U.S. Army Security officer Colonel Burton C. Andrus walked across the prison courtyard to set the night's lethal machinery in motion. The whole prison was permeated by the thought of impending death. (The Courthouse movie announced the next day's attraction: Deadline for Murder...
...trick is done by shooting through the food a beam of ultra-high frequency radio energy from a magnetron, the tube which powered many wartime radars. The waves make the molecules in the raw food dance back & forth three billion times a second. Their motion generates heat. In seconds, the food gets hot. There is no waiting for the heat to seep in slowly, by conduction, from the surface...
Serious students of the motion picture do a lot of their serious studying at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The Museum's Film Library, launched in 1935 on Rockefeller money, has gathered one of the world's best collections of old & new films...
Last week the Museum's film students were well into a 67-week course called "The History of the Motion Picture (1895-1946)." They were seeing The Great Train Robbery (1903) and D.W. Griffith's Intolerance (1916), Chaplin's Easy Street (1917) and De Mille's Male & Female (1919). In coming weeks they will flock to see Valentino, The Big Parade with John...
Peaceful Heights. Above the danger zone, most experts hope, lies an unknown but safer range. Airplanes that could accelerate (and decelerate) fast enough to pass safely through the enormous supersonic room would have to behave like bullets or shells, leaving harmlessly behind them the sound waves their motion creates. But no one knows at present how to get over even the perilous threshold without suffering disaster...