Word: act
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...board of 7 trustees, made up partly of Harvard professors, and partly by collectors interested in the organization will act as an advisory body. The trustees are Professors P. J. Sachs '00, Arthur Pope '01, E. W. Forbes '95, Mr. Arthur Sachs '04, Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Mr. J. N. Brown '24, and Philip Hofer...
...actress, he grew up in road-shows, later filled inkwells for a San Francisco rubber company, played in stock and finally in a picture, The Snob. Mary Pickford gave him his first big part (Heart of the Hills). In 1918 he married a girl who put on an act in his base-camp; later they were divorced. He married Leatrice Joy in 1921; they were divorced. He has a 92-ft. schooner called The Temptress, drives a Packard, plays tennis fairly well, golf badly, is careful with his money and reads Shakespeare. He dislikes romantic roles and thinks the best...
...spent weeks, months, under the patient tutelage of Lieut. Frederick H. Becker at the Curtiss Field School. He got along all right when Becker was with him. But on his first solo flight he sat frozen at the controls, and missed collision in a crowded sky by sheer act...
...that speculative law through which the act of purchase increases the value of the thing purchased, Blair & Co.'s acquisition of Prairie stock shot Prairie quotations upward. Indeed, the deal had hardly been concluded when the rise in Prairie prices made the $30,000,000 holding worth $47,000,000. Even before the purchase, however, the two Prairie flowers had been blossoming with unprecedented brilliance. Prairie Pipe Line had a Low for the year of 51. Last week's High was 277. Even Wright Aero, even Radio Corp. have not equalled this record climbing-the most sensational advance...
...shoe is a commodity. So is a motion picture, a vaudeville act, a radio program. A man who has sold shoes should be able to sell cinemas, acts, broadcastings. So thinks the recently formed Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. (TIME, Oct. 15), so thinks Hiram Staunton Brown, its new president...