Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom we are called upon to record such an act of cruelty and low-lived blood thirstiness as was enacted by a party of students last Sunday afternoon. About 15 of them repaired to a retired spot in a field near Porter's Station; they brought with them two bags, each bag containing a cat and they were followed by a bulldog. A circle was formed, a cat was then let out and made to confront a ferocious bulldog; they attacked each other with the merciless fury characteristic of both species when unable to escape. During the 'high toned' entertainment...
...Harlan club for which Edward de Castro and Charles Perlitz will take part, will oppose the Bryce-Powell club team composed of C. G. Heimerdinger and M. E. Purnell on another case in Evidence, involving the effect of a presumption on the burden of proof. Professor Morgan will act as Chief Justice...
...evening the final argument will take place between J. P. Hart and J. A. Lane of the Beale Club and A. P. Lake and H. H. W. Lewis of the Pound Club who will debate a case involving contracts and insurance, before assistant Professor C. J. Landis who will act as Chief Justice...
...estate was good, and at one time he owned more than anyone except John Jacob Astor-but he never raised a rent or put a tenant out for not paying the rent. When the War came, the government took all his property under the Alien Property Custodian's Act. George Ehret got it back again. When Prohibition came he could not quite believe it. That it should happen, such a craziness! . . . He refused to shut up his brewery. He would not let any man leave him until the man had a new job. The old brewers, who like...
...Great Britain can afford to be generous and to overlook actions that would probably have precipitated armed conflict in the days of the Opium Wars, it might be possible for the United States to act with equal grace in Mexico and Nicaragua. The situations are admittedly different, yet trade welfare and the protection of nationals and their property has to be considered by Great Britain in China as well as by the United States in Central America. But it is believed in England that the former methods were not as helpful as more generous ones. There seems...