Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientists of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group will load the brain with all available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...
...This is a call to action," said Dr. Truman B. Douglass, executive vice president of the Board of Home Missions of the Congregational Christian Churches, in the Woman's Home Companion. "The penalty for failure is greater than any Christian would like to contemplate. The time may come-it has already come in many communities-when millions of Christians actually will have no churches...
Donald W. Dowd '51, president of the Liberal Union, stated last night that the Liberal Union will definitely call for Student Council action on the pledge when the Council meets on Monday. However, if the Council decides not to take action, "the Liberal Union stands ready to lead a movement which would requrest a formal objection to the Navy department by the University," Dowd announced...
...However, I will not let it get lost in the discussion stage," Dowd declared, and although the HLU investigation was not yet complete, he felt certain that some action would be necessary...
...that a university which is looked up to for its eminence in the liberal arts should have no theater; and, two, that it was on the stage at Agassiz that the late George Pierce Baker's English 47 Workshop gave its performances, performances which first gave voice and action to the plays of some of this country's best dramatists. (Baker left the University for Yale when a $2,000,000 grant for a theater and a Drama Department was refused by President Lowell...