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Word: action (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next level of attack is on the matter of economy. Some people, upon seeing a chair or a desk 70 years old, feel automatically urged, by a kind of reflex action, to buy a new one. Others like myself, equally automatically, would cherish it, looking forward to the day when it will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...Crimson's only Brown weekend victory, the Yardling booters controlled the play throughout, allowing almost no action around their own goal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soccer Team Triumphs, 2-0 | 11/13/1949 | See Source »

...think that this two-week layoff has been a blissful, practice-filled hiatus for Henry Lamar. The Yardlings have probably seen less action during this period than at any other time of the year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Seeks Third Win Today Against Best Brown Freshman Football Team in Years | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

Returning to action will be tackle Bob Stargle, who spent the Dartmouth game in Stillman. Only man now out is tackle Dick Heidtman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '53 Seeks Third Win Today Against Best Brown Freshman Football Team in Years | 11/12/1949 | See Source »

...July 8th he was in Palestine. He went directly into action. Chief air opposition came from the Egyjtians flying Italian fighters and British Spitfires, and the single Arab group with a respectable air force. The Israelis flew planes bought through an agreement with the Czech government, procuring Messerschmits which were manufactured at a Scoda plant outside of Prague and flown in bigger planes to Palestine. The Israell also operated several Piper cubs, and increased their air power even further when a group of Beaufighters which were to provide the melodrama in an English movie disappeared from their British field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior, Ex-Pilot Tells of Israel War | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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