Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...breach last night the Student Council made plans to rescue 1200 middies from the subway station island in Harvard Square upon their arrival at 8:30 o'clock Saturday morning. Tercentenary Guides have been resurrected and a committee of four have volunteed to go to the kiczk and act as official greeters for the undergraduate body...
Read in Randall: "Making of the Modern Mind" for History 64a. Looked through a portentous new book called "Plays About the Theatre in England from 'The Rehearsal' in 1671 to the Licensing Act in 1737, or, The Self-Conscious Stage and its Burlesque and Satirical Reflections in the Age of Criticism." 33 words, counting "Self-Conscious" as one. Mr. Dane Farnsworth Smith wrote it. It is dedicated to Kitty...
...story is big enough an English paper can go ahead and print it-and get away with it, as the late Lord Northcliffe proved in his historic expose of the shell shortage in the early days of the World War. Under the Defense of the Realm Act, Northcliffe could have been locked up in the Tower and hanged...
There are many vulnerable points in the New Deal armor, but upon their discovery alone no election will hinge. Criticism must be welded into a coherent whole, of which an ideology of liberal progress is a definite part. Thus sections of the S. E. C. Act should be rendered more intelligible, but not discarded in toto. The principle of collective bargaining must receive fuller recognition and better mediation machinery found for industrial disputes. The social security program, and particularly the fiscal stewardship of the government, must be revamped. In these things, as in relief and public works, definite, workable plans...
...capitalize the mistakes of its opponents, it must have a refurbished philosophy and a youthful leadership. The unweildy, amorphous mass of New Dealers are, at some point, going to be rent over weighting the scales in favor of labor, over the tax on corporation's profits, the Social Security Act, over the probability or actuality of vicious inflation. When this time comes, the Republicans must be prepared to assume the role of aggressive leadership. Therefore it is necessary to begin now, not a few months before Sovember, 1940, in the great task of rebuilding a party and taking...