Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...act of the same monarch to dissolve "the pretensed mariage with the Lady Anne of Cleves" (Henry's Queen...
...Act to Attaint James Duke of Monmouth of High Treason...
...Act for vesting in James Watt, Engineer . . . the sole Use and Property of certain Steam Engines ... of his Invention...
Churchill, who had been right about one Munich, did not want another. Said he: "The only hope of peace is to be strong, to act with other great freedom-loving nations, and to make it plain to the aggressor, while time remains, that we should bring the world against him, and defend ourselves and our cause by every means should he strike the felon's blow. I cannot guarantee that even a firm and resolute course will ward off the dangers . . . but I am sure that such a course is not merely the best but the only chance...
...House of Lords at last decided to face facts and repeal the "Act to enlarge the Trade to Russia." The gesture was not calculated to irritate Joe Stalin. The act was merely one of 766 dusty items in Britain's parliamentary attic too old to include in a new edition of revised statutes. It was passed in 1699 to loosen the monopoly of members of the old "Muscovy Company." Other heirlooms lost in the tidying...