Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sailing spaceship, says Dr. Cotter, will be escape from the earth. The satellite will be placed in an orbit in the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun (see diagram). After spreading its sail, the satellite will be designed to have a slow turning motion, rotating once during every two trips around the earth. When it is moving away from the sun, its sail will be at right angles to the sun's light, and it will get the maximum push in a forward direction. By the time it gets to the other side...
...launched every six hours and reported to seven main stations (Suitland, Md., New York City, Miami, San Juan, P.R., San Francisco, Honolulu and Anchorage, Alaska). Electronic instruments dangling under the balloons will report temperature and humidity at the various levels. As the balloons climb through the air layers, their motion will be tracked electronically, revealing the direction and speed of the high-altitude winds. At the National Weather Analysis Center at Suitland, the data will be digested, plotted on charts and sent by facsimile transmitters to airports across the country...
...Caucasus is like "crumpled bedding." The dark night of the soul is "blacker than monks, more stifling than clergy." The evening is empty "like an interrupted story." What Pasternak has tried to do in his poetry is not to recollect emotion in tranquillity, but to arrest emotion like a motion picture stopped with all the characters in mid-action...
...Freshman Council recently passed a motion recommending that Saturday night parietal hours for freshmen be extended to 11:30 p.m., at least temporarily...
Alexander Korns '62 sponsored the motion, which calls for an "experimental period" for the lengthened parietal hours during the spring term. Conditions for the 11:30 permissions would require that no couple be present in at room without at least two other couples...