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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Goodwin-Fuller feud is entering new realms. What started in the first act as one of the innocuous little duds so often hurled by Mr. Goodwin suddenly exploded, and Mr. Goodwin became the ex-Registrar. Act II was a banquet of condolence at Worcester. Tragedy was shoved off the boards by a triumphal burst as friends acclaimed in Mr. Goodwin the next Governor of Massachusetts. He neither accepted nor vetoed the proposition definitely; but he hinted at favor if the people so willed. No astrologer is needed to prophesy that Goodwin vs. Fuller will be the main contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BATTLE OF BEACON HILL | 3/9/1928 | See Source »

...features of the evening's entertainment will be a speciality act by K. A. Perry '28 of the Instrumental Club. The Harvardians Orchestra, under the direction of Roy Lamson, Jr., '29, will provide music, for the occasion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUELL TO ADDRESS 1930 AT SOPHOMORE SMOKER | 3/7/1928 | See Source »

These, spoken in Washington, last week, were the words of famed General John Joseph Pershing as he prepared to act as host at a dinner for the members of the national and executive committees of Washington Cathedral.* At the dinner, it was announced that $800,000 had been given for work on the choir and the crossing of the new edifice. General Pershing, as chairman of the national committee, assumed formal leadership of the campaign to raise $6,800,000 immediately and $30,000,000 ultimately with which to make the cathedral a "U. S. Westminster Abbey." He spoke further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Cathedral & Church | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

Should the Volstead Act be modified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poll to Poll | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

...Whereas, the attempt at prohibition as embodied in the Volstead Act has hampered the medical profession, corrupted politics and made the underworld semi-respectable, thereby setting bad examples to the young who are receiving their training character; therefore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Poll to Poll | 3/5/1928 | See Source »

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