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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dean Hanford's first act upon returning from his vacation yesterday was to give permission to the Committee to solicit contributions personally within the College Houses and dormitories...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council to Solicit Cash From Student Body, Faculty Men As Food Drive Opens Today | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...University of Mexico, where she studied sedulously, a professor asked: "But Señorita Kruger, you go to school day and night and you also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Lady of Letters | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...return, U.S. players seemed to be playing a little rough. In Mexico City last week, leading hitter Duany thought Catcher Owen's tag-out at the plate was more of a punch than a tag. He knocked Owen down. Soon everybody got in the act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Altitude, Attitude | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...class by itself was the Big Inch Oil Inc.'s bid of $110 million: $1 million down payment, $65 million on the sale-closing date, $44 million in corporation income debentures. Intending to act as a common carrier (i.e., not engaged in producing refining or marketing petroleum products), Big Inch Oil, Inc. has the added advantage in Government eyes of falling under ICC regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Inch by Inch | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Moreover: "The leaders of communistic Russia thoroughly understand the . . . philosophy . . . which underlies the traditional French and Anglo-American democracies. Knowing this, they are in a position to predict roughly how, in a given set of circumstances, we will act. . . ." He suggests that the "rest of us" acquire "a similar realism grounded in a philosophical, economic and political theory which defines what we stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Correlation of Reality | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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