Word: motions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answered, he moves a lever and the cover concealing the answer falls away. If his answer is the right one and corresponds, he moves the lever horizontally. In doing this he punches a hole in his answer strip, ineradicably noting that he thought his written answer correct. This same motion advances the machine to the next frame, and at the same time changes the position of the disk so that the correctly answered frame will not appear again if the student goes more than one full circle on the disk. Even if the answer is incorrect, the lever advances...
...same time, the white races have largely discredited themselves in the eyes of the rest of the world. The assumption of western ethical superiority has been shattered in the Asian mind by two world wars and the experience of western motion pictures. To the eastern peoples, we stand for war, sex, and technics; they want none of the first two, but they do want our technics; and not solely for the raising of living standards, but more significantly, because western technical culture is considered to be the world civilization of our time. They see this technical culture as a detachable...
...Freshman Union Committee, an institution for 27 years, last night changed its name to the Harvard Freshman Council. The Committee passed the motion, first presented Oct. 30, by a vote...
...Sensations. The new jets fly ahead of their engine noise, are so quiet that American plans to play hi-fi music-so free of vibration that there is virtually no feeling of motion. They will fly above most bad weather...
...front bobbed the red and green and blue jerseys. So far in front were the jerseys that it took a less speedy, but more enterprising runner to discover that Gate 12 was closed and that a third of the race had passed it by. With a motion both swift and efficient, this hero swung open Gate 12, giving those behind him a "second wind," to coin a phrase...