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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Phillips Brooks House opened its doors to approximately 75 College newcomers yesterday afternoon, welcoming them with punch, cookies, speeches and a motion picture in its customary term beginning open house for newcomers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Greets New Men With Speeches, Movie | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

Gottwald's Communists set the crushing wheels of their party machine in motion. Bratislava's workers paralyzed the whole city in a general strike, noisily demanded that Conservative election gains in Slovakia be scratched. Slovaks were beginning to learn that Communists, even if defeated at the polls, have ways of continuing the fight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Wheels Grind | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...tries to keep vibrating in the same direction, no matter what its support may do. Sperry engineers wondered if a "vibrating gyroscope" might not be more efficient than the more conventional rotating type. There would be no bearings to worry about, and the ball could be kept in motion by the modern magic of electronics. So they dove deep into physics and mathematics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nature's Gyroscopes | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

Henry V, at the Esquire. Laurence Olivier's technicolored masterpiece in its first U.S. showing. Merely the greatest motion picture ever made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Week's Entertainment Choice | 6/4/1946 | See Source »

...years,* moved that it be declared officially dead. In Los Angeles, a superior court judge hauled three former Grand Dragons and an ex-Kleagle before him. After listening to the Dragon's loud denials of connection with, or interest in, the Klan, he granted the unopposed Kenny motion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Out of the Cave | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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