Word: heed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when Japan takes strategic steps, preliminary to the occupation of the Philippines and Hawaii, and the prosecution of her long contemplated war upon the United States, that IS our American bus- iness; and this newspaper advises our Government at Washington to take heed and prepare...
...grayness of a November twilight, a long road of sun-bleached pebbles stretched startlingly white across the barren mountain top toward a desolated ledge. The dwarfed branches of scrub oaks rattled against each other in the cold wind, but the two figures progressing toward the ledge had no heed for the night or the wind...
...hired last week one Leon Fleischmann, persuasive New York advertising writer, to translate all Foreign Office statements into U. S. English before cabling them to the French Embassy and consulates in the U. S. Impressed, many a U. S. patriot hoped that the U. S. State Department would take heed, hire 100% Frenchmen to translate into 100% French the often bewildering (to Frenchmen) statements of the U. S. Embassy and consulates in France...
...chattered about repealing "Mayor" Walker's boxing laws, and safeguarding the health of boxers. At Boston, a Massachusetts State Senator filed a bill to forbid boxers who differ more than 15 lb. in weight striking each other. Meanwhile sports reporters gave clues which alert Medicine seemed likely to heed. Grantland Rice observed: "Head punching has left in its wake a long line of shambling, goofy, punch-drunk fighters who walk about on their heels in the paper doll ward with badly scrambled brains...
...degree of national self-containment . . . and thus to secure a larger measure of economic isolation. . . . The third road is that we inflate our currency, abandon the gold standard and attempt to enter a world economic war, with the certainty that it leads to complete destruction. . . . Unless the world takes heed it will find it has lost its standards of living and culture, not for a few years of depression but for generations...