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Word: acted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Canada Lee's fiery Caliban is brilliant. When Lee cries, "Ban, Ban, Ca-Caliban, got a new master, got a new man," Act II reaches a moment of dynamic crescendo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

Elliott Perkins '23, director of the War Service Bureau, said that he was "still puzzling about it." In the event that Congress enacts the service draft proposal into law, Perkins feels that his War Service Office may well be able to act as an advisory body in the placement of 4Fs in industry. He remarked that "no matter how hard you study, you aren't going to affect...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAFT OF 4F'S ELICITS VARIED OPINIONS HERE | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

...speech before the Harvard Liberal Union in the Lowell Junior Common Room Saturday, Oscar Schoenfeld, one of the labor leaders convicted in the Minneapolis sedition trials, urged the release of his colleagues and the abolition of the Smith Sedition Act under which they were convicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Schoenfeld Speaks to HLU; Blasts Smith Act. | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

...Tennessee Valley Authority Act was passed almost 12 years ago, and at the time and for a number of years thereafter it was harshly criticized by a considerable segment of the population. Lilienthal now finds it hard to get accustomed to a tremendous change in public opinion, even in the conservative press, and remarked that he is used "to being patted on the back with a foot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TVA DIRECTOR LECTURES HERE | 1/9/1945 | See Source »

Although she has been dancing all her life, she is no longer interested in that alone. Because she could also act and sing in On the Town, she turned down Billy Rose's offer to "back her up with 40 dancers" in The Seven Lively Arts. "Anyhow," says she, "if you're trying to be somebody, why get smothered under great big names like Beatrice Lillie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musicals in Manhattan, Jan. 8, 1945 | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

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