Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After the review on the Common the West Pointers will march directly to the Park Street subway station where two special cars will be kept reserved in waiting to take them to Cambridge. The cars will not stop at the regular Harvard subway station, but will continue through to the Stadium station where the cadets will again form their marching column...
...daughters of leisure in Back Bay remains to be seen. Husbanding the golden Jane has been deplored since the time of Omar, but it may still be our weakness now. The great army of the unwed which wins its victories by conscientiously filling the stomachs of others may well take heart, for though the Senior may be sitting and thinking, and dreaming of finals to be, the Freshman, far from being warned by his lot, is ever ready to learn from any tidy live heathen that turns up. And while the hardy perennials at Radcliffe seem to be attracting Harvard...
...hero is the son, born in early wedlock, of the Grand Eunuch. Not wishing to be his father's successor, he flees the royal city in company with his wife, Chee-Chee. On the road, they are beset by Tartars, monks and brigands who beat the hero and take Chee-Chee off-stage for purposes which can be guessed. Finally the Grand Eunuch catches up with his son and prepares to have him fitted for high office; but a friend of Chee-Chee, Li-Li-Wee, persuades her husband to kidnap and impersonate the surgeon...
...History. It was in 1775, says Mr. Hughes, that Washington addressed the Continental Congress: "Should not a court be established by authority of Congress to take cognizance of prizes made by the Continental vessels?" The prize vessels got their court, and were forgotten. But the federal court has persisted for a century and a half, and culminates in the present Supreme Court which is designed to maintain the necessary balance 1) between State and Nation; 2) between individual rights as guaranteed by the constitution and social interest as expressed in legislation...
...marry the girl's father but when everything had been arranged he died and Theresa was left alone, unhappy, and growing old. Franz, her son, had by this time become a pimp and jailbird; he came home to his mother only when he wished to take money away from her. Finally, she refused to let him have any more. Then Franz, whom she had wished dead, strangled her. Albert came to see her in the hospital where she lay dying. Theresa said to him: "He has only repaid what I did to him. They must not punish...