Word: actions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of confidence in the economic future ... of the U. S. is foolish. . . . Words are not of any great importance in times of economic disturbance. It is action that counts. . . . The next practical step is the organizing and coordinating of a forward movement of business through the revival of construction activity, the stimulation of exports and of other legitimate business expansion...
...Guardsmen, weary of the eight-week fray, wanted to go home and lick their wounds in private. Democrats also craved a respite; the charge, false or true, that their action on the tariff was largely responsible for the stockmarket crash and business uncertainty made them skittish about pressing their victories...
...under the influence of the Kaiser [Wilhelm II], but you ought to know better, old man. There is much that I admire about the Kaiser . . . [but] he himself is altogether too jumpy, too volatile in his policies, too lacking in the power of continuous and sustained thought and action for me to feel that he is in any way such a man as, for instance, Taft or Root. You might as well talk of my being under the influence of Bryan...
...other scientists important clues which led to the invention of the electron-actuated radio tube; 2) the Prize in Chemistry for 1929, to be divided between Dr. Arthur Harden of London University and Professor Hans von Euler-Chelpin of Upsala University, Sweden, for their joint research on the enzyme action in the fermentation of sugar; 3) the Physics Prize for 1929, to perhaps the most elite of living scientists, Louis Cesar Victor Maurice, Due de Broglie...
Then there is the college-musical or "Good News" type of film, of which "Sweetie"--where the action, as a matter of fact, takes place in a prep school, though the films have little interest in the difference--is considerably the best. In it the songs are introduced by making the hero an embryonic song writer and the heroine a chorus girl who inherited the school, and by letting the students sing and dance all over the place at social functions, at the Big Game and while Miss Helen Kane is supposed to be taking a music lesson...