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Word: take (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Acting Mayor Walmsley: We'll take the matter under advisement. I want the authenticity of these names checked first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Blood in New Orleans | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

...thank you in advance for your attention to my modest request. I hope that we will both see the time when, in the mind of the layman, Mars will cease to rule on a celestial throne, but will take residence with his friend and cohort, Satan, in the bowels of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 26, 1929 | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Officials. In Mrs. Willebrandt's mind more to be condemned than the agents have been Washington officials in charge of Prohibition enforcement. Said she: "It will take many a day for law enforcement to recover from the setback it suffered under General Lincoln Andrews. . . . He multiplied publicity, created a public psychology in his own favor . . . began to put in office men who were temperamentally and in every other way unfitted for the task. His notorious appointments . . . Roscoe Harper . . . Frank Hale. . .Major Walton Green . . . Ned M. Green. . . . I refuse to believe that out of our 100,000,000 population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Questions & Answers | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

Correspondents heard at British headquarters that whatever attitude the French might take, British troops would begin to move out of the Rhineland within a month. At London, the Daily Herald, organ of the present British Labor Cabinet, promptly said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

When Chancellor Snowden had studied the Four-Power offer he denounced it as actually giving Britain only 20% satisfaction. Once more he demanded 100%, vowed he would take not a farthing less than the $10,800,000 per annum more "spongecake" he had asked at first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Hague Haggle | 8/26/1929 | See Source »

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