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Word: take (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uncle Sam is not the kind That's looking for a fuss; But if they should feel inclined To take a shot at us- Talk about your rallying Should the bugle blow, No delay or dallying, Bang! And off we'd go! We must be ready. It's well to be ready. You never can tell-you never can tell In a fight, what they might prepare to do. They might compel us to yell, "We dare you to." And so we must get busy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ready Cohan | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Whack Huno take your partner, Well the floor your trotters shake, Isn't it the truth I tell you, Lots of fun at Finnigan's Wake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Dreams exist as sensation or impression, not as speech. Words are spoken in dreams, but they are usually not the words of waking life, may be capable of multiple meanings, or may even be understood in several different senses by the same dreamer at the same moment. Since dreams take place in a state of suspended consciousness, out of which language itself arises, Joyce creates, in Finnegans Wake, a dream language to communicate the dream itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Author. With the publication of Finnegans Wake, James Joyce has probably closed the cycle of his great works. Ulysses took seven years to write, Finnegans Wake, 17. At this rate of progression another book would take 41 years, making Joyce 98 when it was finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Night Thoughts | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson Freshmen were on the short and of a 9 to 0 score in a match with a team composed of Harvard graduates on the Jarvis Courts on Saturday afternoon. Russ Ellis, at number one for the Yardlings, was the only man who was able to take a set from his adversary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NETMEN BEAT PENN BUT BOW TO PRINCETON 7-2 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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