Word: action
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Munroe-Langstroth steamshovels started dredging out the gook last Wednesday, when the contract began. A third will swing into action in two weeks, when it gets the necessary engine parts. After they have dug pits 11 feet down from water level and stretching out a few yards from either bank, they will fill the holes with gravel mounds 15 inches higher than present water level, as bases for the abutments...
...group of Harvard and Radcliffe students gathered in a small apartment on Massachusetts Avenue to discuss the organization of an action group to investigate possible discriminatory situations in the Yard and elsewhere in Cambridge...
Harvard figures to be in better physical shape Saturday than at any other time since the season started, since there were no injuries sustained against Holy Cross and tackle Dick Guidera and tailback Jimmy Noonan are both expected to see action against Princeton. Noonan was one of the 13 men hurt in the Army game and was restricted to holding the ball on extra point attempts against the Crusaders. He did the passing in yesterday's workout, along with Charlie Roche and Carroll Lowenstein...
Commencing on the recent legal action brought against him, and attendent publicity, Fournier said yesterday that his business was "at a standstill...
Players read directly from script without benefit of scenery or costumes. Readers worked in some action and facial expressions into their presentation...