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Word: motions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...motion on the bias measure was defeated once in the evening, but President Edward F. Burke '50 re-introduced it when he found out that one member who had abstained on the first ballot would vote in favor of the ruling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Opposed to Discrimination, Votes to Act Against NROTC Oath | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...Intruder in the Dust" is a motion-picture worthy of your attention even though it is not quite the cinematic milestone advance reports had promised...

Author: By George A. Leiper, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/20/1949 | See Source »

...from a fading minority which it has used as a villain ever since the movies were galloping tintypes. The Association on American Indian Affairs formed a national committee to get better movie treatment of the red man. Announced the association's president, Novelist Oliver (Laughing Boy) La Farge: "Motion-picture producers themselves are now more responsive to the problem, and are taking significant steps in current feature productions to give Indian material fair and authentic treatment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lo, the Pressure Group | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...Just the usual hoke," says an actor in "Holiday Inn" playing a Hollywood director. His comment, applied to the entire motion picture, in almost, but not quite, in order. The "hoke" in "Holiday Inn" is the old-fashioned, pollyannish product that Hollywood continues to turn out year after year. The only qualification that must be made is that "Holiday Inn" has a lot more to offer...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...superintendent during the filming. Nonetheless, the movie, stripped of Faulkner's peripheral probings into mind, heart and scene, is not only dead serious but dead on its feet; its cautious approach to its material results in a film that is more like an arty still photograph than a motion picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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