Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home and the Gharibdis of general disfavor abroad. To let the matter drop would probably not be satisfactory to those in Russia who feel that communism is being threatened. To press it would probably be to incur the hostility of the other nations who would inevitably regard the action as totally unwarranted. It is possible that the severity already threatened is no more than a beau geste for the benefit of Russian opinion, and that further action is improbable. But thus to confuse further an already delicate issue would seem extremely unwise. How the matter will be settled remains...
...George Alexander McKinlock of Chicago, who gave the dormitory to the University in memory of their son, will be present at the ceremony. George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16 was killed in action in France on July...
...political campaign in the newspapers realizes it. In the recent mayoralty contest in Chicago the issue was King George the Fifth of England--a topic which affected Chicago not at all, of which the voters knew nothing and on which the victorious candidate could not conceivably take any action. Yet he swept into office for that reason...
Reduced to its lowest terms, the action of the book is provided by Nona's love affair with Stan Heuston and Lita's incipient love affair with Dexter Manford. The rest of the characters are so implicitly concerned in one another's actions, each is so much a pillar in the last year of the 19th Century, separate catastrophe would be impossible. Total catastrophe trembles above them like a paper cutter on a thread when Dexter Manford arranges things so that he can, without Jim, have Lita as a guest in his country home. A triviality twists...
More evidence of the tendencies of Eastern colleges to organize an Eastern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference is seen at the present moment with the three notable occurrences in the football world of the past two days. Harvard's action in dropping Brown for the 1928 season, Yale's non-scouting agreement with rival colleges, and the unanimous consent of ten colleges to allow a central arbiter to select officials for major contests all seem to imply that college sports relations are about to undergo a further, and more radical, change...