Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee also took under advisement the petition for admittance of several new institutions, final action pending a thorough investigation of their eligibility rules...
Though His Excellency Tcheng Loh took no further action, last week, other statesmen were busy with speculation as to what will happen when the League Council meets. Of the Great Powers only France is really anxious to force a show down with Hungary in the interest of her small national allies, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia and Rumania. Italy must presumably oppose any action, lest she herself be proved to have shipped arms to Hungary in violation of the Treaty of Trianon. Germany is expected to take the same stand, though for the different reason that she fears the establishment of a precedent...
Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
...President Frank's self-defense was even worse than his first action. . . . He excused himself by saying the matter was one of decorum rather than free speech...
...freshmen of Butler University of Indianapolis, Ind., fled to a jail rather than submit to further rough initiations at the hands of members of the Tau Kappa Tau fraternity. They played cards, sang songs, ate food supplied by the father of one of them. Big TKT men promised "action" when the freshmen left jail...