Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With only one practice session remaining before the University hockey team opens its season against M. I. T. at the Boston Madison Garden tomorrow evening, Coach Joseph Stubbs '20 yesterday afternoon announced the starting line up of the University sextet which is to take the ice against the Technology team...
...composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
Such beliefs as these have been advocated more or less openly for at least the last 100 years, in Protestant circles. That finally eminent theologians should take the trouble to advance them in a book amused some Unitarians, some independent admirers of a man Jesus, who have put by all supernatural elements in Scripture as fictional. They came as a shock only to hardfast fundamentalists of the evangelistic type, like Dr. John Roach Straton, who insist that every phrase in the Bible is "gospel truth," inerrant...
...theologians who take this attitude the doctrine of "inerrancy of the Scriptures" is given another meaning. Much of rhe material in the Old and New Testament is accepted as true in the historical sense, the rest of it is considered true in a symbolical sense. It is true inasmuch as the moral or mystical meaning which it symbolizes is true...
...begin with, his name was not even the U. S. Grant of fame and fancy, but Hiram Ulysses Grant-the initials proudly etched in brass tacks on the trunk he was to take on his unwilling way to West Point. Suspecting that fellow cadets would guy him for initials H. U. G., he plucked out the tacks, signed himself reversely Ulysses Hiram. But the registrar had him down as Ulysses Simpson Grant (an absent-minded senator had assumed the mother's maiden name) and refused him admittance without authorization from Washington. Ulysses, characteristically impatient of government red tape, made...