Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subsequently becomes, his redemption from a life of complete inertia, he owes to a girl, Susi. Naturally, since Alik is Continental, Susi is not his wife. Possessing the shrewdness of the slums, she manages, when Alik's father ousts her from Alik's modernistic chambers, to take Alik away with her, to make him work. Together they found a model dairy in Prague. Dispelling U. S. qualms, their marriage looms...
...success. It is a shame that his wonderful work should be branded with defeat. He deserved something far, far better!" Allied Bulls Baited. The offer made by Dr. Schacht, which seemed to brand FAILURE upon all concerned last week, was in fact a pair of alternatives. The Allies could take their choice, and in either case they would get 15 billion dollars over 37 years. The first offer (which so enraged the French and British that they almost for got there was a second) provided that if Germany were granted "access to colonial raw material," preferential tariff treatment from...
Representatives of every nation of any consequence, including the U. S. and Soviet Russia, met in Geneva last fortnight to take up the work of the League of Nations Preparatory Disarmament Commission where it was left last year (TIME, April 2, 1928). Chairman was a Dutchman, gruff, able, patient Jonkheer J. Loudon. Presently the delegates were asked to express individually their approval or disapproval of the following general principles: 1) Appreciable reduction by all nations of their existing armaments; 2) Acceptance by each nation in proportion to its size of a proportional degree of disarmament; 3) Adoption of a mathematical...
Like soldiers, like ramrods, members of the newly elected 100% Fascist Parliament stood at attention before King Vittorio Emanuele III in the Chamber of Deputies last week, waiting to take their oaths of office. Each deputy was resplendent in dress suit and white gloves. "Gentlemen!" boomed Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, "His Majesty the King invites you to be seated!" They sat. He read the oath of office. He began to call the roll. Like clockwork, as each name was barked, a white-gloved hand shot up in the Fascist salute, and the deputy in question shouted "Giuro!" ("I swear!"). Straight...
...second leap. As they hurl their sleek, silvery bodies over the falls, it is clear why they are called "salmon." (Latin salmo means "a leaper.") Goal of the jostling, leaping fish is the quiet of the Yukon's upper pools. Swimming stoutly against the current, it will take them all summer to reach the headwaters. On the long trip (2,000 miles) they eat nothing, slowly burning up the fat oil they have amassed in the sea. In the autumn they reach the clear, placid upper reaches of the river. There the males, haggard, savage from starvation, tear each...