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Word: actes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best available allaround naval weapons. The nation's highest ranking seadog announced that "recent air operations on the Coast of China" had convinced him that airplanes alone could not prevent an enemy expeditionary force from landing, and that airplanes alone could not successfully prevent a blockade or act as a convoy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Probe Continued | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

...meeting planned for next Thursday at 7:45 o'clock in the Winthrop House Common Room, a committee will present two diverging reports on the proposed revision of the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Debate will proceed on the basis of amendments offered by the committee and on others introduced from the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CURRENT EVENTS FORUM TO TACKLE SOCIAL PROBLEMS | 2/19/1938 | See Source »

...sadder than that, he would have seen public support of the Teachers' Oath Act. A public deliberately misinformed by powerful newspapers, a public deliberately led astray by self-appointed patriots, supporting by a confusion between nationalism and the dictates of common sense an act that outlaws free criticism and perpetuates existing political evil. Massachusetts no longer knows democracy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECTACLE OF THE OATH | 2/16/1938 | See Source »

...feet two inches tall and an excessively mild and unemotional disposition, suddenly finds fame thrust upon him, for as the supposed killer in defense of a beautiful woman, he is the idol of the nation. The extravaganza with which this plot is unfolded, the surprise twists in the last act and some satirical comment on social climbers, women with pasts, publishers of "pornographic pulp," shysters, bankers, female adolescents who go in for studied moods and histrionics, and male adolescents who are tough, are the chief virtues of this lively, highly amusing comedy by Edward Caulfield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

...accident. The result is that the slightly bewildered spectator doesn't know whether to regard him as the epitome of respectability that he has always seemed, or a Borgia in disguise. This uncertainty does not add to the interest. There is an amusing uncertainty springing up in the third act, however, over whether the little man actually made the kill that he is so sure of, or whether his glory is to be snatched away from him by some one else's having fired the deadly pistol while he fired blanks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/15/1938 | See Source »

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