Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock yesterday morning Soldiers Field assumed a martial aspect superlatively compatible with its name, and the concrete walls of the Stadium witnessed a scene rivalling any gridiron contest in action and intensity, an exhibition which a spectator might have guessed to be either a celebration in honor of Lindbergh or a sham battle...
...Freshmen have a four man team in action against the Pennsylvania first year men this afternoon. M. T. Hill '30, Arthur Ingraham '30, E. B. Ward '30, and R. S. Winslow, '30, will represent the Crimson hopes in the singles against strong opposition. The University of Pennsylvania Freshmen have a formidable record to their credit, having taken the measure of the strong Princeton Freshman racquetmen a week...
...membership in the Harvard Fun Council for three years, was made, known yesterday. Lawrence was chosen to fill the vacancy left last year by the death last January, of J. W. Hallowell, also a member of the class of 1901, the choice being made by the joint action of the presidents of the Harvard Alumni Association, and the Associated Harvard clubs...
...recalled that science no longer conceives of two classes of persons: the "sane" and the "insane." The "sane" are simply that large, vague mass of humanity which neither rises sufficiently above the normal to attain "genius" or sinks sufficiently below it to become the object of restraint. The action of so-called "mental diseases" may either benefit or harm humanity, may bring the "diseased" power and wealth or lead to the madhouse...
This ghostliness is what, if anything, marks Poet Robinson's limitation. He has written exquisitely of high romance. His lines, flexibly austere, trace out the action sharply and whip passion to its perfect pitch. But then, often, the simple words are tortured and strained deviously to sustain ecstasy, in bodiless comparative discussions of ecstasy itself. Then the lines ache like tendons not strong enough to keep a soaring hawk aloft, needing a gust of action, a wingbeat of refreshed emotion to lift the poem again...