Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...executed with the striking number of murders it would seem that the death penaly is not successful as a deterrent to murderers, Quong resorted to several comparisons of the United States with other countries to show that when a country like England has the death penalty and quick judicial action there are surprisingly few murders every year. West, who moved the question, showed how the execution of the death penalty is spasmodic and uncertain, with damaging results for society...
...flies. Santa Anna brought up bigger guns, battered down the stone walls of the Alamo, butchered the remaining haggard Texans in cold blood. Only a Negro and a few women were spared. All through Texas cries went up: "Remember the Alamo." But Texans were not given to cries without action. To get Santa Anna, they chose a commander named Sam Houston, 6 ft., 3 in. in his moccasins, of whom President Andrew Jackson said: "Thank God, there is one man at least in Texas who was made by the Almighty and not by a tailor."* Commander Houston wasted no time...
...Significance. The play was strange, not only by reason of its length. Playwright O'Neill re-introduced the aside, mainstay of earlier dramatists, long discarded by scornful realists. His people's words and actions he completed with their thoughts. Every few moments the action stopped completely while an immobile performer spoke what was rattling through his mind. The spoken word was often a direct denial of its companion thought. Suspicion, mastered grief, cynicism, inferiority?the raw matter of truth?were permitted and expressed. The author tried devotedly to give his hearers a third theatrical dimension. The strange convention, difficult...
...shifting its line-up at the middle of each period so as to have a fresh team constantly in action, the Dartmouth basketball quintet turned back Harvard Saturday night, 44-31. On the basis of comparative scores, the University five had been conceded at least an even chance of victory, but so effective was the Dartmouth plan of attack that the Crimson was never really dangerous...
Today, according to reports, the Corporation will take definite action on the Stadium enlargement problem, for some years under discussion, and this year, by the action of the Boston Building Commissioners, made of immediate moment...