Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Tammany, might object to such open toleration of dishonesty as an acquittal would indicate. On the other hand, the more cynical can see good advice to future feminine aspirants to office in the results of the trial. It will not need many more years of experience before they can take their place as accomplished politicians along with their brothers and husbands, but meantime they had best either walk a bit more softly or let their male relatives manage the trouble some details...
...City, arrive at Wichita, Kan., at 6 p. m. The passengers will then get on a Santa Fe train for a famed Fred Harvey dinner and a good night's sleep. Next morning, somewhere in New Mexico (the city has not yet been chosen), the travelers will again take plane and hop to Los Angeles, completing their journey at 6 p. m. Fred Harvey will also furnish the sky refreshments...
Having learned from his singing father-in-law the politic value of give & take, he last year gave Radio Corporation of America, General Electric and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing important rights in his FBO Pictures Corp. Thereby he gained a valuable tie-up for his cinema studios with radio studios...
Finally there is a source of unending difficulty and annoyance to Freshmen, both advanced and backward, which might largely be obviated. The present language requirements force numerous Freshmen at Harvard to take two essentially elementary language courses, while few in the class escape one such course. Whether they choose to meet these requirements through course credits or not, most students regard them as simply barriers in their college path to be surmounted by the easiest method possible. As few men consider them means toward linguistic attainment as actually learn one to say nothing of two language because of their imposition...
...such course reorganization is only a partial remedy; men who enter college with a good school and entrance examination record should be strongly encouraged by their Faculty Advisors to take at least one advanced course. Not only would such a course in some instances bolster a flagging academic interest, but it would in all cases serve to tie the Freshman more closely to the Sophomore and Junior years...