Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been prepared. . . . The cardinal weakness of that conference was that questions of naval strategy were always to the fore and emphasis on strategy always deflects policy. ... It is policy which ought first to be determined. ... If indications are given from responsible sources that in the event of constabulary action against a [Kellogg-Briand] covenant-breaking state, the navies of the two countries will act together, one area of possible conflict is greatly reduced...
Tennis enthusiasts will have an opportunity to see their favorite stars in action tonight at the Union where moving pictures of many prominent international players will be shown...
Movies will be shown of Tilden and Hunter, American men stars who are trying to regain America's tennis prestige, and of Cochet, Bragnon and Borotra, French internationalists and holders of the Davis Cup. Miss Helen Wills, queen of the world's tennis courts, will also be shown in action. Coach Harry Cowles, coach of University and Freshman tennis, is to talk on tennis and explain the various styles...
...amusing of our experiments was that performed upon the students in the sociology course at Minnesota. For obvious reasons, it was altogether necessary that we conduct all operations without the knowledge of the students, and with this in mind we outlined and carried into effect the following program of action...
...meteors and related effluvia has the earth been compounded. A billion or more years ago, according to the planetesimal theory of the late Geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (TIME, Nov. 26). a star passed near to the sun, and by tidal action sucked the gases of a great sunburst out into space as a monster twirling gas mass.† The gas broke into eight main puffs which gradually coalesced into the eight planets-Mercury, Venus, Earth. Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The first four are now more or less solid, the others very gaseous, Jupiter, the largest, being...