Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stomach what was shouted to cheering, pacifistic socialists by War Minister Tom Shaw. "A few more years!" came the bullfrog bellow, "A few more years of Tory [Conservative] misrule and Great Britain would lose India just as surely as she lost the American states! Labor is changing all that. Take Egypt, for example! I say and I know that The Labor government is going to give independence to Egypt on terms that will establish happy relations between both countries and will make our communications with India, safe for all time!" Later at the War Office an apoplectic general said, controlling...
...could not compete with freight trains as long as freighters had to wallow around the Horn. But the opening of the Panama Canal furnished a short water route from U. S. coast-to-coast. Fast new freighters go from San Diego to New York in 13 days; freight cars take about 14 days from seaboard to seaboard. In 1928, 9,868,000 tons of coast-to-coast freight went through the Canal...
...third onetime Russian is Frederick Brown, known now as a daring speculator. He not only buys to resell but generally has resold before he buys. His procedure is to take an option, find a buyer, complete the purchase, make the sale. He has been known to invest $100,000 in an option, find no purchaser, let option and $100,000 lapse, start philosophically on another deal...
Author Renn begins with the 1914 advance through Belgium. "We" cross rivers, take towns, shoot rifles. Deep in France, shells displace bullets and flying shrapnel forces "us" to dig into the earth. Bang! rat-a-tat! whack! bang! "My" friend crawls under sheet. Showers of sparks on the ground, then Crash!?a dark brown cloud over the front line. There is a curious noise close by. Something moves under the sheet. A jagged hole in it appears. Boo-oom!?pat-pat-pat! The ground shakes. Gas. Shrieks. Four years of this. Escape: death, a wound, a breakdown, intoxication...
...stamped last week on a model A Ford. The first million took 13 months; the second million six months, 20 days. Third million will take even less time...