Word: acton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portuguese who, he believed, were unfit for facts. After 20 years of Salazar, the dean of Europe's dictators, Portugal was a melancholy land of impoverished, confused and frightened people. Even Salazar, that model of rectitude, showed signs of succumbing to a law of politics discovered by Lord Acton: "Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts ab solutely...
...many more prayed than went to church. For thousands it was a time to pray silently, at their work or at home. Said an Indianapolis housewife: "I didn't go to church because I had a sick child. I prayed, however; I prayed earnestly." Said a West Acton, Mass, businessman: "I don't pray very often, but I did today...
Thomas Theodore Hoffman, Alexander Louis Jackson, 3d., John Pressly Kennedy, Jr., Joseph Anthony King, Jr., Robert Fulton Kurtz, Elliott Charles Lasser, Truman Saul Licht, Russell Frank Locke, Jr., James Logan, Jr., Henry Hixon Meyer, Jr., Clarence Fahnestock Michalis, Ernest Albert Mitchell, John Acton Morgan, Roland Ernest Mueser, Sean Buller Murphy, Henry Norris Platt, Jr., Alfred Howard Renshaw, Walter Barnwell Saunders, Dorraine Ward Slingerland, William Edward Smith, Arthur Sumner Tarlow, Richard Lawrence Wechsler, Edward Tubbs Wentworth, Jh., Walter Chadbourne Wilson, Jr., Benjamin Tappan Wright...
Calm hung over the quiet west London suburbs of Acton, Chiswick and Ealing. Housewives popped in & out of neighborhood stores with hardly a glance at the sky. They felt perfectly safe; the Germans hadn't been over London for months. It was a few minutes after nine on Armistice Day morning...
Under the leadership of James W. Dow '41, the Outing Club will hold a joint skating and feasting party with Wellesley this Saturday on the shores of Lake Waban; afterwards the Club will go to a West Acton barn dance...