Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat hosts prepared to rededicate themselves anew to fairness and justice, the bustling Southern city in which they are to meet is disgraced by an unspeakable act of savagery. There is no other way to describe the performance of the eight armed white men who yanked Robert Powell, 24-year-old Negro, from a hospital cot on which he lay with a bullet in his stomach, and hanged him from a bridge just outside the city...
Loathsome act...
...were elected to conduct the activities of the Harvard Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the Engineering School Honor Society, at its last meeting last night. J. S. Wintringham '30 will be president of the Society while F. J. Mardulier '30 will act in the capacity of vice-president...
...observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the man who designed the prize-winning generator, a Scottish professor named George Forbes, joined Mr. Adams in the belief that Alternating would prove feasible...
...legalizing death by professional prescription. Advocates argued that euthanasia has become common in the Reich. Opponents pointed out that no one man has the moral balance to decide on another's death. It apparently did not occur to the German debaters last week that lethal decisions, before the act, might be left to a jury of physicians or to a court...