Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After he watched for a while, Mike went into action. By the time he began to move, rumors were going the rounds that he had actually been elected by Multnomah County gambling interests. He denied it, and to prove that he wasn't fibbing, began raiding gambling dens right & left in his county bailiwick on Portland's fringes...
...were Economist Tucker P. Smith, head of the Olivet Teachers' Union and the 1948 Socialist candidate for Vice President, and Pacifist Carleton Mabee, of the history department, winner in 1944 of the Pulitzer Prize for biography (The American Leonardo). Student intellectuals lined up behind Smith as a Student Action Committee. "The S.A.C.'s," jeered Ashbyite Clark Balch, a 30-year-old senior and football tackle, "are the kind of people who like art and music and stay up till 4 a.m. reading the classics. We like to play ball and go out on dates...
...take official part in a service which is based wholly upon belief in it? Would it be consistent to ask an earnest and convinced Marxian Communist to take official part in a meeting held to pay honor to the Constitution of the United States? . . . The suggestion which such action obviously conveys to the young people who attend the service is that it makes no difference whether they believe the Christian Creed...
...went back to Duke for a B.D., earned his Ph.D. in sociology at Yale soon after joining the Divinity School faculty. From 1944 to 1948 Congregationalist Pope edited the magazine Social Action, and lectured at Manhattan's Presbyterian Institute of Industrial Relations. He arbitrated labor disputes, helped reorganize New Haven's Labor College, and grew to be well-known for his unflagging opposition to Communism in labor unions. His appointment by the Yale Corporation insured that the Divinity School would continue to emphasize what Pope himself calls the "study of society as it is, in relation to what...
Shortly after the start of the second stanza Jack Carman slid head first into the boards behind the Northeastern goal and was put out of action for the rest of the period. Later, wing Bill Garrity and Huskie Captain Deke Kerrivan astounded the crowd with twenty foot headlong slides into the boards...