Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have become one nation, we can only survive through the most elaborate system of concerted action. Any part which fails to function is chargeable with disloyalty to the whole people...
...been said of Edward George Villiers Stanley, 62, present and 17th Earl of Derby, that he could no more do a mean action than stoop to flatter a fool. In that apothegm is the key to the understanding of his character. A big, burly, slightly flabby man, he looks for all the world like an overdressed butcher or a well-to-do farmer, an oversized mustache accentuating his incongruous appearance. His voice is loud, deep, hearty. In a stolid English way he is a friendly man, although he has few intimates. He is somewhat downright in his opinions and there...
...Charles Maurras and Action Francaise", Professor Morize, Sever...
Miss Cogtello is the kind of daughter which college presidents seldom have and the action pictures of the football game, with people dying all over the place for dear old Atwater, are excellent. But it is the pants, the pants, that save the evening
When in 1924 France grew exasperated at the Gordian knot into which Germany was lying the matter of reparations, she solved the situation in traditional military fashion by ordering her troops to occupy the Ruhr. Other nations, less precipitate in action, shared her anger over the matter of post war settlements. The situation was rapidly becoming a crisis when Charles G. Dawes, Owen Young, and their associates were appointed by the Reparations Commission to draw up what has since been called the Dawes Plan for Reparations Payment. The Dawes plan is responsible for the present stabilization of German currency...