Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject for the debate tomorrow night is "Resolved. That the Mexiean Government was justified in its action toward the church...
...time, then posed as a German, finally coming out a Lithuanian." Of himself Pilsudski said, modestly: "I walked the floor the entire night after hearing of the Lithuanian mobilization, dreading the horrors of war and fearing on the other hand to let my people suffer invasion through delaying military action. Finally, I decided to put the entire matter into the hands of the League of Nations." Meanwhile, at Kovno, Lithuanian capital, Premier Valdemaras told newsgatherers that Polish troops were menacing Lithuania with "intimidatory and provocative actions." He added, nervously: "This cannot go on forever . . . yet it is inconceivable that Poland...
...Action: the King-Emperor approached a huge power press and thrust into it, with well simulated carelessness, not only an object to be pressed but also his right hand. As the huge plunger crashed down, perturbed eyewitnesses could barely follow the lightning movement of a rubber guard which brusquely pushed the royal hand & forearm to a safe distance...
...Honegger, French composer famed throughout the U. S. for his sound depiction of a giant cross-country engine, Pacific 231, announced last week in Paris that his next symphony will be called Rugby. Into music he will put the scrimmaging of a football match, trying "to express the pulsating action, reaction, rhythm and color that animates the great contest of muscles, brawn and strategic skill...
...This action will restore the near-balance between Italian and non- Italian Cardinals (32 Italian, 33 non-Italian) which formerly existed...