Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impulses and his earnestness, had turned out to be an interesting personality. He had often ranted like a demagogue. He had promised and threatened almost everything. Labor, while making little noise in the campaign, had taken to heart Harry Truman's promise to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act, and had delivered at the polls. Harry Truman had promised the farmers full economic support. And the farmers, reversing the tradition that they vote Republican when they are prosperous, had voted...
...English. In autonomy-minded Quebec, he had picked just the right topic: provincial rights. "Our Canadian unity depends on respect for the rights of the individual provinces," he cried. "The province of Quebec has special reasons for insisting on the sanctity of the British North America Act-the preservation of its language, civil law, religious rights and customs." These, said George (amid cheers) "must not be disturbed if we are to have true national unity in Canada." He accused the Liberals of overtaxing "by nearly a billion dollars this year," confidently added, "I don't believe the Liberal Party...
...newcomer's scientific standing and what admirers call his "genius look" won him an instant audience on both campuses. But the theater almost emptied after the first act. Professor Tolman wryly congratulated Oppenheimer on his first lecture: "Well, Robert, I didn't understand a damn word." He had lectured at a breakneck pace, in abstract prose punctuated by a dozen distracting mannerisms...
...athletics and they wanted to play Princeton. Likewise students at Princeton felt that the game with Harvard was really an essential part of a Tiger schedule. The result was a gradual rapprochement between the two. First the two crews raced each other, with MIT also in the race to act as a buffer. Then the minor sport competitions was resumed...
...need to be reminded that the choice is not limited to two projects. We do not have to choose between sterility and incongruity. If the memorial can help others to obtain the education which is so easily obtained here, it must mean more as a positive and idealistic act than any activities center or plaque. We can do better than that, and we are responsible for doing so. Shorman Hawkins...