Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leverett House group usually presents several programs of one-act plays each year...
...chosen one-act play will be performed...
...cost of living is on the rise. While huge Prudential Insurance Co. plumped for the variable annuity, Metropolitan and others opposed it, arguing that a drop in stock dividends-and a cut in annuity payments -would shake public confidence in insurance. The Securities and Exchange Commission got into the act, contending that it had the power to supervise any such plan, and joined with the National Association of Securities Dealers in a test case to stop the sale of unregistered variable annuities by two small insurance companies...
...Interior Department last month when Stanford W. Barton offered to undertake the biggest Indian land development of all time. The friendly Missourian, a dabbler in uranium and alfalfa, was a godsend to the Indian Affairs Bureau officials. They signed him up just one day before expiration of an act enabling Interior to lease 67,000 parched Arizona acres with the expectation of turning them into a desert garden for some 1,500 Mojave and Chemehuevi tribesmen, who would get the land back in 25 years. As first installment on the $28 million deal, which promised handsome profits to Developer Barton...
Trajalgar, when it came, was an act of Napoleonic desperation-a sort of exasperated suicide. Napoleon's invasion concentration, the work of years, had reached its peak point: it must be used or broken up. Ready to go, by Historian Maine's account, was "the fantastic total of 2,343 vessels, capable of transporting 167-590 men and 9,149 horses." It was to guard these that Napoleon sent his fatal order to Admiral Villeneuve, then in port in Spain, just above Gibraltar: "Wherever you find the enemy in inferior strength you will attack him without hesitation." Against...