Word: motions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Every body (mass) continues in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a straight line, except so far as it may be compelled by force to change that state...
...Ether. The ether had another valuable property: it was at rest-"the calm ether-sea"-while everything else in the universe was in motion. Thus it provided the only stable "frame of reference." The earth, for instance, was thought to have "absolute motion" through the motionless ether...
Loss of the ether left the physicists inconsolable. Without it, light waves had no medium to carry them. The vital "frame of reference" was gone. No motion was "absolute" now. The motion of every moving body could be measured only "relative" to some other moving body...
Their black-and-white style is peculiarly fitted for motion pictures. Cain's "Mildred Pierce" and "Double Indemnity" and Chandler's "Farewell My Lovely" (filmed under the title "Murder, My Sweet") were made into pictures of real power. Chandler's latest is "The Blue Dahlia," a story of three discharged Navy fliers just back in L.A. from the South Pacific. One of them, played by Hugh Beaumont, is the straight man; there's nothing wrong with him. William Bendix, who has never turned in a bum performance, does a beautiful job as the ex-gunner who has a steel plate...
...conclude the session, a Technicolor motion picture, "Harvard Highlights of 1944-45," was shown. The film, produced by the Harvard Film Service, depicted scenes of Commencement exercises in 1944 and 1945, the College's VE-Day celebration, and the combined Harvard-Tufts Medical School Commencement. Dean Wait gave a running commentary...