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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact is, "The Winter's Tale" just isn't a good play. If Shakespeare's name weren't on it, nobody would pay any attention to this stock, five-act, heavy "comedy," which not only misses its classical unity of time by 16 years, but loses faith with its audience by reviving the dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 10/16/1945 | See Source »

...months ago, Pan-Dee, hopefully regarded by the Zoo as a prospective sire, began to act more & more ladylike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Pandas Are Peculiar | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...Act amending the Local Government Board Act, enabling a municipality to readjust its bonded debt without asking its bondholders' permission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Battle Royal? | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...Mineral Taxation Act (and its amending Act of 1945), which imposes a flat annual 3ٕ-an-acre tax on mineral rights, a tax of up to ten mills per dollar on the assessed value of minerals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: SASKATCHEWAN: Battle Royal? | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...spot where any action is something of a miracle, General Hawley has begun to act. He has decided on some stopgaps and some long-term plans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Broom | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

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