Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...confronted by candidates appointed at puppet conventions by party leaders determined to obscure or to neutralize every possible issue alike in the realm of ideas and of practical affairs, none but the gullible have any choice but to register at the polls without voting at all. This line of action requires of us courage to withstand exasperating misrepresentation and it is futile without public explanation. But it will remain the only effective course open to liberals until normal-minded parties arise in place of those organizations which have effected not one act of public importance since their provocation of civil...
...sixty per cent, law is in action. Voting will resume on Thursday and continue until the requisite number of ballots have been deposited. It now behooves those who last year were zealous in the support of the ruling to prove its worth...
...introduction of the tutorial plan into every department of the college. The association will open its active campaign of publicity with a meeting in the Union Thursday evening at which the English university system will be explained by Professor Merriman, and the society will submit plans for further action...
...question, as each country tried to win the other to its own views. Now that Germany has sufficiently recovered, however, to be able to take her place once again in the world markets, the problem of how she shall be treated becomes one not of debate, but of action. Unless England and France can reach some agreement, a severance of their friendship is inevitable...
...succeeding acts are but clever repartee. Therefore when the second act begins with an amusing but not altogether relevant scene in which Lady Frederick bests her dunning dress-maker we expected that from then on we were to be amused rather than thrilled. But we were agreeably disappointed. The action, mingled with dialogue, epigrammatical and quick, was soon caught up again, and the play progressed surely and rapidly to the conclusion of the story...