Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...defense of Guam, Republican Representative Maas of Minnesota cried: "We want the world to know that we intend to defend every inch of American soil anywhere, at any time, from anybody." Chairman May of the Military Affairs Committee joined in and shouted: "Americans must take their stand for or against this country. The American frontier is where the Stars & Stripes...
...Marquis Quińones de León, Generalissimo Franco's French representative, made ready to move into the big, bleak Avenue George V Embassy, and in London the Duke of Alba, Generalissimo Franco's agent to Britain, prepared to take up quarters in the imposing Spanish Embassy in Belgrave Square. Opposition M. P.s cried "Shame!" and "Betrayal!" in the House of Commons when Mr. Chamberlain announced the recognition of Generalissimo Franco; in France Socialist leader Léon Blum felt "nauseated" when M. Daladier made his announcement to the Chamber of Deputies. But both the Chamber...
...that Madrid could carry on alone. Dr. Negrin's plane was reported ready to carry the former Premier out of the country and many other Loyalist leaders in Valencia and Madrid prepared to flee. At least 10,000 Loyalists felt their lives sufficiently in jeopardy to want to take up the offer of a ride on British and French warships to neutral ports...
Nature put soft tufts of fibre on cotton seeds so that the wind would carry them away from the plant to take root. Man came to attach more importance to the fibre than to the seeds, cultivated cotton for more fibre. The U. S. now raises too much cotton lint, not enough cottonseed.* But there is no economic reason for not raising cotton as a seed crop, since cottonseed oil makes oleomargarine, shortening, soap, and the cottonseed cake which remains after the oil is squeezed out makes good fodder for cattle...
...doubtful that the drug nicotine alone produces fatigue. There is a "feeling to which an extraordinary number of people admit, that they smoke too much-that cigarets are a waste of money and so forth. . . . In sensitive men and women this mental conflict . . . may do much to take the edge off that zest for living which is supposedly normal." Prime cause of smokers' fatigue, concluded the Lancet, is not nicotine but "vague and subjective" feelings of guilt...