Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...smiles were to welcome the audience and remind it that the Institute is wholly voluntary and unofficial, deliberative and not for action. "We are forever tinkering the machinery of Government," said Dr. Garfield. "Why not let it stand as it is ... when by the simple device of conference we may accomplish all that is desirable? Conference, the educational method, is the most potent . . . because it dispels ignorance and drives out fear; it discovers men of good will and substitutes the common welfare for common avarice...
...command of the 3,000 marines now stationed in Nicaragua (TiME, May 23) is Brigadier General Logan Feland. His state of mind last week was indicated by a radiogram which reached his wife at Atlantic City, following the successful action at Ocotal. She read: "All seems well today. Thank God for the power of aviation that saved our men. Love...
...platform near the ring, were expected to settle the positive contentions of three schools of thought which sprang up from the split-second observations of many men and their emotional memories. But when the films were shown, Dempsey's back was found squarely blocking from view the disputed action of his right fist in the seventh round. The schools of contention all thrived and the films were virtually tripled in value. Every cinema spectator could still be his own referee on the thrust which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high-waisted purple trunks...
James P. Dawson, though convinced of the foul himself, summed up in the New York Times: "In behalf of [Referee] O'Sullivan it can be said unequivocally that he acted as he saw the action and as his experience dictated. If he made a mistake ... he made an absolutely honest mistake. . . . O'Sullivan always has been one of the most efficient and capable referees. ... He is known for his honesty, fearlessness, integrity and unimpeachable character. None disputed this. ... It is simply a matter of opinion...
...unseen multitude surrounds Dr. Barclay approaching Point Sur?his disciples; minds at any distance aware of his power. The women at Point Sur,?even Maruca, the squat half-breed whom he uses as deliverance from a 15-year chastity?vaguely understand his announcements: "God thinks through action .... Nothing you can do is wicked...