Word: deed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best deed of the week was when the Federated ladies conducted their biennial Young Artists' Contest, awarded $1,000 prizes to the three most worthy applicants for whom the Schubert Memorial will arrange public engagements. Preliminary heats had been held in 36 regional districts. For the Philadelphia finals there were eight nervous survivors. The three big winners: Violinist Joseph Knitzer, 22, from Manhattan; Pianist Rosalyn Tureck, a pupil of Olga Samaroff; Contralto Margaret Harshaw, 23, a stenographer for Bell Telephone Co. in Philadelphia...
Philadelphia Quakers are by no means the only religious folk currently to become alarmed over the martial world in which they live. Largely because so many of them were stampeded into helping fight the last war with word and deed, a substantial number of U. S. clergymen are bending their efforts to keep the nation, or at least themselves, out of the next one. Recent examples...
Certainly President Roosevelt never gave the nation's powermen any false hopes. By word for six years, by deed for two, he has warred on public utilities locally and nationally. That has been the most consistent of the Roosevelt policies. Even so, a thorough reading of the Wheeler-Rayburn bill to abolish public utility holding companies (TIME, Feb. 18) left the industry chilled and dazed. But not for long. Sincerely convinced that the enactment of such stringent legislation would not only wipe out hundreds of millions invested in holding company securities but come very close to wrecking...
...heroism of German soldiers, and setting up a tablet in their honor, Harvard has been insulted, and its chapel defiled, by a wreath placed under said tablet bearing the official mark and colors of the German people. Not only that, but the German representative in Boston did the dastardly deed, under the guise of recognizing Harvard's breadth of mind in honoring the memories of America's former enemies...
...National Student League jumped to the rescue. Tearing the veil of an innocent gesture from Germany's face, it bared the deed in all its enormity. It discovered an insult and a degradation. Harvard is protected...