Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approximately 12:32 p. m., Herbert Clark Hoover will find himself on a stand on the Capitol's east steps, a world-wide radio audience invisible in the microphone before him, a printed speech in his hand.* The reading of that speech will be his first official act as 31st President...
Before performing that act and uttering the pledge that precedes it, Mr. Hoover will undoubtedly repair to the Friends Meeting House and silently dedicate himself in Quaker fashion...
...driver of the battered flivver and the second-hand Dodge the proposal now before a committee of the General Court should be of interest. The plan suggested is to repeal compulsory insurance and substitute for it an act based on a New Hampshire law which provides that, although insurance is unrequired, drivers causing accidents are barred from the road until damages are payed...
...Professor Clark will stop at Batavia, Java, to act as an official delegate from Harvard to the Pan-Pacific Scientific Congress, a meeting of some 200 representatives from countries bordering on the Pacific Ocean for the purpose of discussing all sorts of medical and agricultural, as well as purely scientific, problems pertinent to the region. This is the fourth of such conferences; it is held under the auspices of the Netherland Indies Science Council and under the patronage of the Dutch Government. Dr. W. L. Moss of the Harvard Medical School, will also represent the University...
...Moral Act and the Moral Agent", Professor Perry, Emerson...