Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question why college men prove to be better workers than those who have been less fortunate in their education, Mr. Zukor said, "College seems to teach them how to work, how to be efficient, and how to persevere. It teaches them to think rapidly and correctly and to act accordingly. College trains men for the motion picture business mentally and physically. This business is hard on a man. Whether he realizes it or not, a motion picture writer or actor is working most of the time until his play is produced. Whether he is at work or elsewhere...
...Majesty could do no more. The act was equivalent to conferring knighthood; and the King-Emperor is restricted by custom from conferring a higher title than "Dame" on a woman not already a peeress...
...What act of mayhem did the farmer's wife commit on three mice...
...special act of Congress, when the Indian scouts were disbanded...
...What sort of banks will the newly passed McFadden-Pepper branch banking act aid materially...