Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their first bulletin the Professors confidently predicted complete recovery. Candid, they described dealing with the Senator's face in such thoroughgoing fashion that "it will be temporarily impossible for him to take food, except through a tube piercing the bandages...
...mathematicians who will be inclined to read it and. although I never did make that statement which was ascribed to me that only eleven people in the world could understand relativity, I really don't believe that there will be more than a handful of people who will take the trouble to follow its argument...
Many an interpretation might be made from these figures. Probably the broadest is that the colleges are now requiring, stimulating or expecting their students to take physical exercise and build up healthy constitutions. Another factor is the tendency of athletes to overtrain, overstrain. "Athletic heart" is a frequent result, particularly among runners. Still another factor is the intelligence of present-day honor men. They are no longer bookworms, grinds, recluses. They are expected to. and do, take active part in collegiate activities, extracurricular and even extramural. Their alert intelligence guides them through a temperate life regime...
Follow Thru. It was only necessary to take one look at Zelma O'Neal to know that everything would be all right. Both pretty and without inhibitions, she tunefully remarked: "I Want to be Bad," illustrating her desire with stamps, wind-ups, moues, and fetching wriggles. When she fell in love, she urged her inamorato to "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me," beating him gently on the chest. So did the audience belong to her, though she abused her property by making such cynical comments as this, to a recalcitrant lover: "You can't have children...
...Lindbergh had flown the circuit of the Caribbean, Hayden. Stone & Co.. with other bankers, organized the Aviation Corporation of the Americas, which bought all the stock of Pan-American Airways Company already in the district. Richard F. Hoyt* became chairman of both companies, and transportation projects began to take shape. At once they started a Miami-Havana service...