Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Rothermere frankly asks the British public: "If the nation suddenly decides that it must be led out of the industrial and economic wilderness at all costs, if agriculture wants action and industry wants action and those who seek peace and retrenchment and a new spirit of creative energy want action, where shall they look for the one big man except to Lloyd George? What other has ever done anything big? What young politician of any party gives promise today of even a tithe of Mr. Lloyd George's proven statesmanship...
...depended upon a "vital principle." Berthelot reasoned that all chemical phenomena followed physical laws. In his laboratory he treated glycerin with certain acids and got fats, oils and butters. He combined hydrogen and carbon by means of the voltaic arc and got acetylene. "Berthelot condenses it [acetylene] under the action of heat and behold, we have benzine," writes Premier Poincaré in the current Chimie et Industrie, French periodical. "He adds hydrogen and behold, there appears ethylene, which, united with water, will produce alcohol. He places it in contact with air and with an alkaline solution-and behold, acetic acid...
Electric Battery. An electric battery is a collection of electrolytic cells. The action of such cells depends upon the fact that different metals and their salts have different electric potentialities. When pieces of different metals or of a metal and its salt are touched together, there is a momentary passage of electricity between them. When the pieces are in a suitable electrolytic solution the current is continuous...
...worthy of entrance into college the Amherst president has taken a well-defined stand. Harvard determined the members of the class of 1931 in the recognition that the cumulative weight of scholastic attainment was not the only one to be placed in the scales of decision. This pioneer action has proven a practical support of the belief of President Pease that "the guardians of a privately endowed college will, I believe, be more faithful to their trust and better conservators of the money given by its donors if they provide for the merciful exclusion, or even the rigorous elimination...
...Clive, the first speaker, voiced the opinion that theatregoers are becoming more receptive to good drama at the present time "What the public wants now," he said, "is enormous action. This is largely the reason for the disinclination of the dramatic public to attend the theatre of literary drama; they prefer to stay at home and read. Further proof of the love of action is the enormous popularity of motion pictures...