Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...days later, armed with his appointment credentials from Governor Fisher, rotund, rosy-cheeked Mr. Grundy smilingly entered the Senate chamber with Pennsylvania's Senator Reed to take the oath of office. By mistake he sat in the seat of Senator Norris, who was told that he had been himself "unseated." But for three hours Mr. Grundy had to wait while Senators violently abused him and Governor Fisher. With hands folded in his lap and a bland smile on his round face, he listened placidly to a torrential flow of senatorial invective. He heard himself called a "corrupt lobbyist," his appointment...
Results were speedy. The city's clergy unanimously voted an investigation. Police Commissioner Herbert A. Wilson issued broad denials. Massachusetts' Governor Frank G. Allen ordered his Attorney-General to take "right and proper" action. The article, by Walter W. Liggett, was called "Bawdy Boston." Its charges, stretching over the past decade, were specific...
Either there should be a revision in the system of travelling time to take care of cases such as that of the foregoing illustration, or the college should grant the extra day or two as an extended vacation period to men who have only one or two classes before the week-end. It will be hardly reasonable to expect men to return next year for Saturday classes when January 2 falls on a Friday. The benefit of the single class cannot offset the benefit of two extra day's holiday...
...gymnasium will not be completed before March 1, in all probability, the national intercollegiate meet is to be held there on March 28 and 29. Eighteen colleges participated in this meet last season at St. Louis, but a larger entry list is expected this year since it is to take place in the East. Inasmuch as Freshmen are not eligible for this meet, it is unlikely that the Crimson will enter any competitors before next season...
...feel harsh twinges of conscience at being obliged to use "falsehood and deception" in their glorious work? Can it be that the stern motto "The end justifies the means" only hides spirits saddened by the quality of those means? If so, it is time for some kind person to take the blindfold from the eyes of the self-made martyrs, and to instruct them, gently, that no one wants to suffer. Then, with the contentment of those who have done their work well, they can withdraw for a cozy session with the Peter Rabbit stories...