Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would have thought Craig was in the electric chair, so quickly was he galvanized into action...
With the members of team A battling for the state individual amateur squash championship, only three University squash racquets teams will be in action today. But six teams in the interclass and inter-departmental tournament will begin play today to determine the winners of the University team championship...
There are two schools of thought and proposed action. One, headed by the U. S., seeks to exclude major political issues, tries to keep the Conference and its permanent agency* in a rut of cumulative, bureaucratic progress: pamphlets . . . scholarships . . lectures infinitudes of supplemental Pan-American societies . . . emotion . . . soft soap...
...their habitual and comparatively easy study of insects to the study of mammals. There are, said he, at least five great divisions of genetic problems which are capable of successful investigation in laboratory mammals, viz., the genetic bases for size & growth, fertility & sterility, susceptibility or resistance to disease, lethal action of genes during development, and psychological differences. Studying those fields, investigators might learn the possibility of controlling the ratio between the sexes, of developing resistance to infectious diseases and elimination of hereditary defects, of gaining new light on the inheritance of mental characteristics...
...idea in action last week...