Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Although every citizen is free to hold his own views as to the identity of the future King, my Government will take legal steps under the Constitution to punish those responsible for agitation, if the movement in behalf of Otto or any other candidate continues...
...Take the recent Tsinan incident.* How many innocent country men of ours were killed there? The bones of many still lie unburied, yet Japan still occupies Shantung...
Theoretically, the newspaperman belongs to a "fourth estate," proud in its antecedents, jealous for its membership, mighty in affairs. Actually he binds his toga with shoelace and a piece of string, and now and then he must take to his heels with some irate mere first-or second-estater grabbing at the frayed vestment...
...department store, said, addressing London's Master Printers' Association: "I shall never be quite happy until I have a really good newspaper in London. If any one of you has a good newspaper you want to sell at a very low price, I shall be pleased to take it over or. talk the matter over with...
...rally it is customary for all Yale undergraduates to yell and cheer. This year, however, only 500 were gathered together in the name of Yale. President James Rowland Angell, having campaigned so vigorously and with such notable success for Herbert Hoover, apparently supposed that his moral support might also take happy effect upon the football team. "The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said. Then Tad Jones, onetime Yale coach, spoke scornfully of the decline of the Yale spirit and the growth of wisdom. With tears in his eyes he described the undergraduates who were not present...