Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...about the Byrd Expedition and the naming of different mountain peaks after great men; why not name a mountain, a bay or an inlet after the great dog Chinook. He did a great thing in a dog's way. Chinook was brave until the last, in soul and action, even to die alone...
Foreseeing objections, Senator Capper explained that he would not seek action on his resolution until next fall...
Both men are tough-knuckled fighters of the old Marine school. Each came to eminence through battle smoke and war fury. Both are Southerners. For each the Corps has a large, profane, unsentimental affection. Both are burdensomely decorated for bravery in action, Gen. Neville having the edge with a Congressional Medal of Honor for the cool way he seized Vera Cruz with the Second Regiment...
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) figured out a law which explained pretty well, but not perfectly, how those stellar bodies moved. One body, said he, attracts another body according to their mass (weight, size, momentum) and the distance which separates them. Such is the action of gravity...
Tudor strained a ligament in his shoulder during the B. A. A. encounter Tuesday and, according to Dr. Augustus Thorndike Jr. '17, medical adviser to the Harvard skaters, will not return to action before the first Yale game on March 2. Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 stated last night that he was not yet decided as to what shifts in the lineup would be made to fill Tudor's place...