Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conception of honor is outraged, his family name has been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action might proceed to any one of many conclusions. Sudermann very wisely sees the struggle through, shows it up in its many phases, and leaves the future undetermined...
...Kent School system is hardly feasible at college, but it would be a small matter merely to present parents with other data sent them by college authorities a comparative statement of what they pay the college to educate their sons and how much more the college pays them. Such action might produce a response from persons who will presumably benefit from the college education of their progeny in addition to that from the alumni who have already benefitted. It would at least be a gesture toward a more direct and businesslike distribution of a university's financial burden...
...soldiers wearing the uniforms of the Southern [Nationalist] army. The soldiers stopped us and demanded our valuables, which we handed over. Dr. Williams, who was a noted Chinese scholar and spoke the language like a native, then stepped up and addressed one of the soldiers and protested at the action...
...sins. He was pert, fresh, insolent, outrageous. But he was a born baseball player and the manager, Cliff Macklin, (Warner Richmond) knew it. After an entertaining series of adventures in which the audience sees expertly photographed pictures of Mike Donlin, Irish Meusel, Bob Meusel, Tony Lazzeri in real baseball action and almost smells the fresh rolled diamond, the frowsy gloves, the players' sweaters, the hero is filmed winning the final world series game for his team by sliding for home with a vicious lunge that sweeps him along the ground halfway from third...
...CRIMSON for April 7, 1917, printed a special telegram from General Wood, a leading story on the recruiting activities of the R. O. T. C. and two editorials urging preparedness and action. But also on the first page there is an article written by a famous German professor on the Faculty, in which he says...