Word: actions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Scanty information about Navy indicates that the Middles will have a worthy eight in action. Columbia appears the least dangerous threat of the four opponents. Both the Lions and Pennsylvanians recorded fast times in their last race but they had the tide with them...
...Council for Planning Action is sponsoring the symposium, with lecturers drawn from three Harvard departments, and from the outside world...
Most of the stories fit what people like to call the New Yorker pattern: sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them...
...Sullivan said last night, "because it was unlikely that it would be passed in its original form. However, the original draft of H-442 served a valuable purpose in that it let trustees of schools and colleges in the Commonwealth know that the Legislature was prepared to take drastic action against communist infiltration into our education institutions...
...action of Radcliffe authorities in withdrawing their joint exams proposal ended a year of debate on the issue. Radcliffe's Student Council came out against the proposal after a poll of the Annex undergraduates found overwhelming opposition to the plan...