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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME did a phony balancing act in its story on Palestine, calling the anti-partition arguments "persuasive" and directly opposed partition arguments "practical as well as moral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Senate this week, Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg rose to present, "in the name of peace, stability, and freedom," the Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, more familiarly known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Congress' Week, Mar. 8, 1948 | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Election of delegates to the Finnish Diet was scheduled for July. At present, in a bloc with the Socialist Union party, Communists control 51 of its 200 seats. But in recent local elections Communist candidates have been losing ground. If the Communists intended to cement control, the time to act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: For a Radical Improvement | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Barring an act of Good on the way, three lines and a couple of defensive units, not to mention a goalie, will still take the ice; but a recent injury to George Minot's foot jeopardizes his usefulness on the first line for tonight's encounter. His absence will further cripple an offensive punch already weakened by the loss of Tom Moseley from the second line...

Author: By Bayard Hooper, | Title: Injury-Ridden Sextet Makes Long Jaunt to Yale Tonight | 3/6/1948 | See Source »

...Ameche as the ogre. But their performance considering physical handicaps are adequate. Robert Cummings is debonair as the passing hero, and gives a fair imitation of the snave prewar Robert Montgomery. George Colouris is his customarily minister self, and Hazel Brooks, oh well, she'll never learn how to act...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleep My Love | 3/4/1948 | See Source »

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