Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Floods. "The Mississippi Valley flood . . . was met with energetic action by the Republican Administration...
...labored again six days and on the second seventh counted his labors. In the fortnight he had called 18,146 cases to his bar. Four out of five he was obliged to continue. Yet the nearly 4,000 cases of which he disposed represented amazingly expeditious, probably record, court action...
...Minneapolis last week. The 79th annual get-together was in session; from all parts of the U. S. doctors had come to pool their problems and share their results. Minnesota's governor, the Hon. Theodore Christiansen, gave them hearty welcome, then the 15 scientific divisions went into action, 400 learned papers were presented and earnestly discussed...
...music, made him the object of belligerent slander. His most famed work previous to Fra Gherardo was Debora e Jaele, an opera about a Hebrew prophetess in which, as in the more recent work, Pizzetti made frequent use of a crowded stage and made his score the incentive for action rather than its purpose...
...advantages of acting in accordance with this standard, of holding steadfastly to the judgment of the conscience he sums up in the sentence, "just an exact analysis of self-deception, exact attempt in excuse conduct less than the best tends in so far to dull the vision so every action that is done because a clear light shows that it is the right thing to do lends to increase the light, to sharpen the audience of perception between right and wrong, and thereby to strongthen character...