Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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According to its secretary, the Massachusetts Civil Liberties Committee has been loosely organized for some time. The present need galvanized it into action, and the meeting tonight is the first step toward combatting the Boston censors...
...more simple minded may wonder at this action on the part of the Cambridge police, and object that the ordinance was not impartially enforced. In deed, a few days ago one could hardly walk a block without having handbills thrust at one, publishing remarkable opportunities in pressing and cleaning, and used car sales. And the police, as far as I could see, did not interfere with these gentlemen. But one cop took Cohen's circular, and the CRIMSON; says "About twenty minutes later the Sergeant came up from the station and hauled in both Cohen and his batch of papers...
...wings were tilted, whether the nose was up, down or level, and to what degree. 3) Barometric altimeter showed to within a very few feet how far above the ground of a particular field, in this case Mitchel Field, the plane was at all times. Because the action of this altimeter depends upon barometric pressure, a variable factor, a ground crew was obliged to radiophone Lieut. Doolittle air pressure conditions. In development are more independent instruments, the sonic altimeter by Dr. Elmer Sperry and the radio altimeter by General Electric Co. They will sensitively record the time and therefore...
...Significance. Nearly every action of Carry Nation's career provoked in the public mind a lurid distortion of the saloon of her times. She was one of Prohibition's prime instigators. Author Asbury has done her the justice of weighty, lively, analysis...
Coach Horween sent his team into action armed with six plays, a wider assortment than has been shown in previous opening games. These all started from the same formation used last season, the ends wide and a back in motion. Line bucks, off-tackle slants, and end runs were checked by a forward and lateral passing attack. A surprising variation in such an early game was a criss-cross. The backfields, which have been working under the experienced eye of Coach Casey, functioned in good early season order. The timing was off, on occasion, as was shown by the narrow...