Word: actionable
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...foreign relations, the United States has never been over-addicted to tact or a regard for the proprieties; and the Senate's action is not unusual. Private individuals, it is true, may express their feelings with more or less freedom, on international as well as on domestic matters; but with public dignitaries the case is different. Their acts (official and unofficial) receive greater weight than those of private persons, and should be governed with a greater degree of caution...
...Because he is an idealist, with his feet on the ground. He has consistently translated his ideals into action, not-into words. His broad sympathies are tempered by hard common sense, and he is also the possessor of a sense of humor, which (one may safely believe) will keep him from regarding himself as the repository of all wisdom, or the sole spokesman of his one hundred million fellow-citizens. He seems so far never to have lost his head, with abundant opportunity to do so. He has showed the ability to carry out vast measures of relief abroad with...
...Harvard College who at the beginning or the end of the Christmas or Spring recess fails to register at the time set for that purpose, may be required to pay to the Bursar a fee of $5 before being permitted to register. Payment of this fee does not preclude action by the Administrative Board in the cases of students who register late. No extensions of this recess will be granted...
...practical idea-so far as it goes-is embodied in the latest bill brought forward by the British Cabinet. Mr. Lloyd George proposes two separate Irish Parliaments, one for the North and one for the South. So long as these two Parliaments exist apart, their fields of action are very rigidly circumscribed; but in case they can agree to form a united legislature for the whole country, a some what wider autonomy constitutes their reward. This principle seems fundamentally sound. Irish union is a thing that only Ireland can achieve, and only by peaceful means. Some solution must be adopted...
...Sophomores are especially desired, but upper classmen will be in no way handicapped. At the meeting this afternoon, the nature of the work required will be fully explained, and questions answered concerning details. Men interested in art will find in the three separate settings of the play, the action of which is laid in modern Spain, an unusual opportunity for artistic talent...