Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article opens with a reference to Yale's contract with the Atlantic Refining Company for the sale of football broadcasting rights, saying that this act brought out into the open the whole question of professionalism. The next step is judged to be the direct payment of players by the oil company...
...like to see headlines from Hearst papers flashed on the screen every few minutes, and if you like to see Mr. Hearst's Miss Marion Davis try to act twenty years younger than she is, then there's nothing else for you to do but go see "Cain and Mabel...
Burke, president of his class, was expelled for speaking at an outdoor meeting last May called by the American Student Union as an act of protest against Columbia's sending of a delegate to the celebration at Heidelberg University...
Past Presidents of Princeton have been so engrossed in academic pursuits that they failed to see the world tumbling down about them. Woodrow Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle...
...James Thomas Hammond Jr. appeared to buy the Appeals with money loaned by "friends in the Scripps-Howard organization." His first official act was to liquidate Scripps-Howard's afternoon competition. Last week Scripps-Howard completed the capture of Memphis by coming out in the open, handing Mr. Hammond his walking papers, admitting that any literate citizen among Memphis's 156,528 whites, 96,550 Negroes who wants to read a home-town paper must henceforth do so under the Scripps-Howard flag. Claiming "the largest circulation in the South," the Commercial Appeal brings Scripps-Howard...