Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...limited budget and to the fact that the Athletic Council wishes to cut down slightly on multiple intercollegiate competitions, the members of the tennis team were given a choice of going to Ithaca for the Indoor Tournament or of taking a southern trip during the Spring recess. In view of the fact that the latter plan will afford more men a chance to participate in matches, and will offer a welcome chance to get in trim for subsequent matches, the team has chosen to take the southern trip...
...purpose of the innovation is to permit students to familiarize themselves with works of art and to give them the opportunity to form their own judgments on the pieces in question. It should encourage the development of appreciation of art, for a student is more likely to take advantage of the opportunity to procure pictures to hang on his wall than to make regular excursions to Fogg. A better sense of value for pictures will also come from seeing them in one's own room in surroundings of comparative comfort rather than in the more severe background of a museum...
Captain Richards, a veteran of the World War, and a noted journalist, told how he came to invent the Robot. "What really caused its invention," he said, "was the need of an important person, to take the place of the Duke of York, in opening the Exhibition of the Society of Model Engineers, in London. Since I was secretary of the organization, I decided to make a Robot who could open the exhibition. After many disappointments, it was perfected and amid much excitement, the mechanical man made his debut...
...diseased. As soon as I read the letter, I fished up the number (Dec. 17) and studied the figure more closely and with greater pleasure. In fact, I am not ashamed to say that I think so much of the beauty of the perfect human form that I never take a bath without a long and admiring look at my own form in its perfect proportions. Not one part of me. But all of me. I would rather-far rather-look at a Zig- strange as it may seem, than at the Holy Man on the front cover of your...
From the viewpoint of the reader, incidentally, the proposed legislation is of minor significance. The Boston dweller who must have his "Oil" will simply no longer be obliged to travel to Cambridge to get it. The languishing Boston bookshops will again take on their line of pristine Republican prosperity. And, for the Book of the Month Club, Lewis, Deeping, Sinclair and Dreiser may now be enrolled once more on the national eligibility list...