Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, and only then, will these citizens be able to think and act intelligently when they are called upon to make decisions affecting world trade...
Whatever the reason for this heterogeneity, all creeds lament it. As a matter of act, they have been lamenting it off and on for more than half a millenium, but now, with the interest of the cloth in the course of world history intensified by the advent of the atom bomb, lamentation alone is no satisfaction. In all religions the two principal aims are the same. The discovery of truth is one, the improvement of the world the other; and though there will probably never be unity in the pursuit of the first, American churches are finding that there...
Hold, Enough! In Oldham, England, Actor Antony Oakley, playing Macduff in Macbeth, charged with his dagger, laid on with such vigor that Macbeth was laid up with a five-inch abdominal wound. In Toulon, France, Baritone Fernand Lagarde, carried away by the third act stabbing scene in Bizet's Les Pecheurs de Perles, was carried offstage with a two-inch abdominal wound...
After listening to all this, the House Committee charged him with conspiracy to overthrow the Government, contempt of Congress, perjury, income-tax evasion and passport falsification. It ordered him sent back to Ellis Island and asked the Justice Department to act in a hurry...
...heyday of the firm passed with the 19th Century. Gradually it curtailed its underwriting ventures, concentrated more & more on counseling the owners of large stock-&-bond portfolios. Finally the signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt* on the Banking Act of 1933 forced Roosevelt & Son to give up underwriting and securities dealing altogether...