Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...established philosophical values. Acheson belongs to a more experimental school. Like his friends, Justices Brandeis and Frankfurter, and their own precursor, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, he is more apt to believe that ethical and legal principles can not be so rigidly fixed; their touchstone is whether an action appears to be good in the light of the needs of the day. It was and is a philosophy generally regarded as "civilized," and Dean Acheson is in all respects a highly civilized...
...them nephews. Two of his own sons were in service, one of them missing in action in the Philippines for more than a year...
John Rockwell and Bob Bramhall will definitely start at forward, and Dick Covey will be at guard. The other guard will come from Chip Gannon, Steve Davis, or Ralph Potrillo, but all will probably see action. Either Bill Prior of Ed Smith will start at center...
With this action the Committee brought to an end a year of effort on the part of the Crimson Key Society to bring together socially all four of the College classes with a great weekend highlighted by an all-college dance...
...from his plumbing shop in Watertown to repair a dangerously leaking faucet in Somerville. THIS MAN WAS PREVENTED FROM GETTING TO HIS PLACE OF WORK BY A ROWDY BAND OF STUDENTS FROM HARVARD UNIVERSITY WHO BLOCKED MT. AUBURN STREET FOR CLOSE TO AN HOUR. Such action by the students is in direct violation of the 1st, 5th, 7th and 13th amendments to THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION. The consequences of their actions are grave. The faucet which James Mulhern was to repair became rapidly worse during the period of student pranks and caused the basement of a two-family house...