Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present threat is of greater danger to the peace of Washington. Sir Esme Howard himself has voluntarily offered to set up a zone of local prohibition in the British embassy. And of course such an example of good-will from one power might necessitate similar action by others in order to maintain a proper diplomatic balance. What wonder that foreign capitals must be consulted...
There has been plenty of time since the subject of more flexible laboratory hours was broached in these columns for those in charge to have reached a decision. As yet no official announcement has been made of any action which may have been taken by the committees controlling either the Chemical or Biological laboratories. Rumours have been heard that at least one of these bodies has taken the simplest though most unsatisfactory method of setting controversial questions, the pocket veto...
...them was fathered by someone else. After thinking about it until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does not go into his mind but the action does. He and his son climb up a mountain. ... In the end Jannings does not put his scheme into practice; the interior struggle has been decided another way. You may take exception to the scene on the mountain and to one or two others in which superficial events have been...
None of the 28 deputies noticed that the old Poldavian name of Lamidaeff might read "I'Ami d'A. F."-"the friend of A. F.," "the friend of L'Action Française" famed royalist newspaper of which the editor is Leon Daudet, bon vivant, practical jokester, son of famed Author Alphonse Daudet (Tartarin de Tarascon), exile from the republic he has so consistently lampooned (TIME, June 13, 1927, et seq.). Three days after the 28 gullible deputies replied to the "Poldavian Minister," a special edition of L'Action Française appeared...
Nevertheless, a more liberal endowment and the grant of a playing field would ensure proper facilities for pursuing the "athletics for all" policy, and would give the undergraduate body an opportunity to see the malletmen in action...