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Word: take (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...circle, the temperature was about 98 degrees for 22 hours out of the 24. After a 40-mile trip over land, the party came to the end of their journey. The prospector, whom they were seeking, told them the details of the discovery he had made and proceeded to take them to the spot where he had found the relic imbedded in the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Dental School Museum Acquires Largest Tooth in World--Discovered by Prospector in Alaskan Wilderness | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

Although its existence is no longer marked by the constant flourish of trumpets that accompanied its birth struggles, student government appears to be doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOPES AND FEARS | 1/8/1929 | See Source »

...been getting most of their fun out of reading the brisk, bright pages of their foolish contemporary and lifelong rival, Judge. Life itself didn't seem half so funny as it ought to be. So eventually they beguiled Norman Hume Anthony, editor of Judge, to come over and take Sherwood's place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Life, New Laughs | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...leaders of the New York-Havana trade. Across from Southampton had steamed, as usual, the Cunarder Caronia, bearing 13 disciples of Isadora Duncan and 587 other passengers. But the Caronia had not steamed, as usual, back to England. Instead, she had paused in New York only long enough to take aboard a capacity passenger list for the first Cunard trip to Havana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: U. S. v. Cunard | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

...Chrysler was not very much pleased, especially when she discovered that her husband did not mean to get some good out of so much extravagance by driving it around Oelwein. Instead, what did he do but take it all apart, put it all together and take it all apart again, getting all greasy and wasting his holidays and scratching his head like a perfect crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chrysler Motors | 1/7/1929 | See Source »

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