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Word: actions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this ten-car circus load its tents, stakes, poles and other paraphernalia loosely in baggage cars, when, if he has ever seen a circus in action, he would know that such material is loaded on wagons, which are run on flat cars. . . . According to Tully the wagons were transported empty, and the canvas and other paraphernalia loaded into baggage cars just to give the roughnecks something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1927 | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...such pressing matters as farm relief, the Boulder Dam project, the naval building program and Muscle Shoals, views are so divergent that action can hardly be taken until later in the session, whenever Congress meets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: No Special Session | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...last week's sessions of the Eighth Assembly and the forty, sixth meeting of the Council of the League of Nations, the note in his neighbor's eye disturbed each of the assembled statesmen. Much talk, some of it evasive, and little action proved that suspicion inbred for centuries cannot be bred out in less than a decade. But able critics agreed that discussions, however abortive, were better than the insidious silences, punctuated by subtle urbanity, of the old diplomacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...juice. He said that Persia, following the lead of India, had agreed to reduce the manufacture of opium 10% annually, which, he said, represented a real economic sacrifice since the export of the drug constituted 20% of the export trade and 10% of the government's revenue. No action was taken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS: At Geneva | 9/26/1927 | See Source »

...Hospitality." With these three stones for a foundation the scope of its work has grown and is growing to include any and all service which may be of benefit to the students, the University or the Community. It has become the link between the store house of thought and action, that is the student body and the small world which surrounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNION TO START SEASON MONDAY | 9/24/1927 | See Source »

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