Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TIME subscriber who believes either that TIME will change its policy (for the worse) or cease publication, or merge with another magazine, will consider a life subscription. The advertiser will have plenty of assurance of sustained reader-interest in the renewal action of hundreds of thousands of non-life subscribers...
...went, as custom required, to the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. By custom he delivered a speech on Peace. Contrary to custom he said something pointed. His argument: The Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons, and added...
These twin matters were neatly twined into one substantial measure which provided not only for the next census and reapportionment but also set up the machinery for automatically executing these mandates of the Constitution in the future without further Congressional action...
...There has been no official action taken so far on the editorial," Potter said. "And there will be none in the future. We intend simply to ignore the article, which was just a piece of boyish writing, I feel...
There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part...