Word: actions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...spirit of compromise was the key-note of the Convention session this afternoon, and the feature of the official activities was the appointment by Chairman Harding of a committee of five to confer with a similar committee of Progressives for the direct purpose of finding some common grounds for action. Vital importance was attached to this appointment by the delegates...
...faculties of Dartmouth and Bowdoin have recently taken action in regard to the summer camps at Plattsburg. Their plan is to allow a man to count his summer spent at one of the camps towards his degree. Bowdoin has qualified this slightly, and will require certain military courses given by the college before the training gained at Plattsburg can count towards a college degree...
This year he is interpreting "Troilus and Cressida" in a new light, and is using many ultra-modern staging devices. The Gordon Craige screen method is to be used, and brilliancy will be afforded by strong floods of light instead of by paint and tinsel. Much of the action of the piece will take place on the apron of the stage, thus eliminating long and tedious intermissions...
...General Electric Company is enlisting the services of the experts at the Cancer Hospital in the perfection of an X-ray machine more powerful than anything now in use. The Company is to furnish the Hospital with a machine in return for the experience to be gained by its action on living tissues. The Equitable Life Insurance Company offers its policy holders an annual free physical examination; so, also, does a group of other life insurance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan, has many industrial risks. The holders of such are visited by nurses employed by the company in order...
...became necessary to train a large body of men; and on account of the absolute lack of officers, it was necessary to train the men and the officers at the same time,-hence the great delay in producing an army fit for offensive work, the time for decisive action being delayed for at least two years. It was not until after Gettysburg that either side had an efficient weapon of offence sufficiently flexible to move and to obey, without delay or hesitation, the supreme orders of its commander-in-chief...