Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final finger at the end of the Law's long arm in Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania is a tall gaunt man named Robert G. Elliott, official executioner for those four States. After society had finally decided it must take the lives of Communists Sacco & Vanzetti last summer, it was Executioner Elliott who threw the electric switch. He also killed Ruth Snyder, Judd Gray, and over 100 less famed criminals. When he took up his profession in 1926 he tried to keep it secret. But his name leaked out after a year. He has been uneasy ever...
...India choose. Personally, though I may be called unpatriotic, or even a traitor by those who in their idealism want an independent India; I take the British connection as the only solution of India's problems...
Indians are sedentary and submissive, Britons kinetic and therefore dominant. Significant, last week, was an illustration of this contrast afforded when His Majesty's Viceroy of India, Frederick Lindley Wood, Baron Irwin, set out from Delhi to take what he described as "a short rest and vacation...
...Japanese Government attach the utmost importance to the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria, and . . . possibly will be constrained to take appropriate and effective steps for the maintenance of peace and order in Manchuria...
...authorities appear to be alarmed but remain apathetic. It is time something is done about it. Accordingly, we take this opportunity of asking the university authorities to remove from Oxford those who are responsible for the phenomenon, which would be faintly comic were it not apt to produce such extremely unpleasant results...