Word: take
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...addition to the discount, Campbell stands to gain even more under CBS's summer policy, announced officially last week although it had been a CBS selling point for a year or so. Radio programs canceling for the summer usually take the chance of losing their old spot on the air come fall. NBC is still hard-boiled on this point, but CBS now permits advertisers "brief hiatuses during the summer . . . without forfeiture of time." A summer vacation on all Campbell shows would bring its savings to about...
Jock Sutherland then refused offers of better than $13,000 yearly from Mississippi State and the Pittsburgh Pirates, announced that he would take it easy for a year. Most mentioned as his successor at Pitt was Charles W. Bowser, Pitt center and back in 1920-22. Pitt rooters hoped that after a year of the Bowman Code, Jock Sutherland would be called back to run things...
Today he teaches 1,500-odd students from 46 States and six foreign countries not only how to ride a horse but how to make up their faces, talk, dress, take dictation, be smart consumers. Because one of woman's most important activities is getting on with men, Stephens sees that its girls meet boys at frequent intervals...
...president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
First part of an airplane to ice up in heavy weather is its windshield. It usually becomes opaque as a bathroom window long before wings and propeller begin to take on ice. Standard flying-field crack to pilots complaining about this phenomenon is "Get yourself a windshield wiper." Last week this ironic wheeze became reasonable advice...