Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...some extent lay bare a notice and typically Russian mind. And the attempt is singularly successful. From the very nature of the works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would be of little value. One must go deeper to find the kernel; one must pierce the shell of the detective story and delve deep into the psychological development of the works, for in them is mirrored the development not only...
...that of class or of race. M. Benda's analysis of the nationalism which grew up in the latter half of the nineteenth century and found its highest expression in the World War is keen and comprehensive. But it is not so much with the nationalism of men of action that M. Benda is concerned in his present work as with the nationalism of the intellectuals. Artists, scientists, philosophers, and poets, men of whom a certain degree of universality and detachment from material objects has been expected from earliest times, have become violent partisans of this or that nationality...
Rushing and passing the ball for a total distance of over 300 yards, gaining 23 first downs, the 1928 model of the Harvard football team overwhelmed a game Springfield College eleven by a 30 to 9 count. Coach Horween used 37 of the 39 men ready for action on Soldiers Field Saturday, changing the lineup bewilderingly in an effort to give all his players a test under fire...
...click of a switch super-power "scream amplifiers" came into action, and words conversationally spoken into a microphone on the desk of the President of the Diet resounded through the hall like deafening thunder peals...
...Would Mr. Hoover have the American people believe that in the light of the [oil scandal] disclosures I mentioned there was any rare courage, any leadership or any constructive action...