Word: motionless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...itself in motion (e. g., a swimmer in a flowing river), the speed of the moving body depends on whether it goes with, or against, or across the current. If the medium is still, it moves past the moving body at a measurable speed. Thus, if ether is motionless, it should be possible to measure its apparent rush past the earth by detecting differences in the velocity of light when it moves in the same direction as the revolution of the earth, or in the opposite direction. The earth's speed around the sun is 18½ miles...
...George Sommes, as Job, uses a trained voice, feeling gesture, and deeply thoughtful modulations, to bring subtle variety of mood and thought into an almost motionless stage-picture. Scene follows scene with scarcely a change of position, each motion of arm or body being made to serve for deepest significance. The three misunderstanding friends, and Eilhu too, are individualized and play their parts each in perfect key; this must be, or the play would never carry. The lighting, mechanically perfect, seems to grow from the characters themselves, shifting with their mood, and always throwing the picture into the most appropriate...
...scrambled up again, and found the cave by this time safe for entrance. I went in, and when my eyes had become accustomed, to the darkness, they were met with an astonishing sight. Standing in the centre of the spacious rockchamber were five motionless figures, hooded and masked, and shrouded from head to foot in startling pink garments. (Pink was the color of purity among the ancient Incas, doubtless because it is the color most rarely found in nature.) Kneeling at the feet of each of these standing figures, but clad in less distinctive garments, were other figures...
...genius and a superman. "I saw him once as perhaps no one has ever seen him. He was sitting with his head on his hands, the wind blowing the silvery hairs of his beard through his fingers; he was looking into the distance out to sea. . . . In the musing motionless of the old man I felt something fateful, magical, something which went down into the darkness beneath him and stretched up like a search light into the blue emptiness above the earth...