Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...eight-hour day) provoked argument between those who felt that women could not reach executive positions with a time-limit handicap on their labor and those who felt that women were likely to be exploited by unscrupulous male employers. The matter was finally left to the individual action of women in the various states...
...Field-Marshal Baron Plumer is virtually "self-made." From 1876 onward he rose steadily through the ranks of officers until, in 1915, he commanded the Second British Army, in France, at the victorious action of Messines during the Third Battle of the Marne. Accordingly he was created Baron Plumer of Messines after the War, and granted £30,000. As A. D. C. General to the King, during part of the War, Field-Marshal Plumer won the liking and confidence of His Majesty, George V, who subsequently appointed him Governor of Malta 1919-24, and in 1925, High Commissioner...
...When one goes from west to east one is lifted by the action of the earth itself. When he travels from east to west the very action of the earth pulls him down, depresses him. And?here is a bold, statement?I do not believe that Newton was right in describing the force which pulls us down as gravitation. I believe it is nothing but the centrifugal force generated by the rotation of the earth. If we could travel fast enough from west to east we would be able to overcome that pull...
...Mother will go in order to send a fatherless son through college are herein demonstrated by the heroine, who sacrifices herself as a night club entertainer. When the manchild, on vacation, discovers the Hot Momma's occupation, he excoriates, then shoots her-although the latter action is represented as accidental. Such violence leads to remorse and eventual reconciliation between widow and mite. The better element in the audience, however, is likely to remain rueful...
...Theatre, where Penn State undergraduates stamp their feet and throw peanuts at the shadows of Harold Lloyd and Gloria Swanson, the chemists admired cinematic views of chemical wonders. A strip of animated drawings designed and presented by the General Electric Co. projected the electron theory of atoms into visible action, showing protons and their spinning satellites moving about to form molecular cubes, circles, chains, polymorphs...