Word: actioned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George Van Horn Moseley went into action...
...action of the Corporation in approving the athletic relations have been most cordial during recent years...
...request for the privilege of playing in the Stadium was passed on favorably by the Athletic Committee at their meeting on March 4, and their recommendation was referred to the Corporation for a final decision. With the announcement of the approval of that body, no further action is necessary except the gaining of the consent to the proposal of Mayor Nichols of Boston. Although the Mayor is absent at present; notice has been received from his office that in all probability there will be no opposition from this source...
...does this book try to ring the church-bells for home or country or anything else. It does not even limit itself to the more sensational patches of the war zone--dressing-stations, trenches, No Man's Land; only near the close does the action shift from various sections behind the lines to the real front, and supply the story with a satisfactory climax. Thus, the work is complete, not composed at an oblique angle; its scenes dramatic, not melodramatic. Private Suhren, withal, decidedly concerned with the fortunes of himself, of his girl, and of his three or four closest...
...series of recent experiments," he said, "33 tests of cheating behavior were devised and applied to children from nine to 14 years of age. These tests were conducted largely in the classroom but some of them pertained to the action of children at parties and in the home. To insure accurate results the experiments were necessarily made in a disguised manner...