Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Could you, when referring to California as the Screwy State, just add "Omitting San Francisco"? Really, all the nutty ideas and religions, etc. have all originated in Southern California and we in San Francisco are disgusted and ashamed ourselves. Possibly you are smart enough to know this and take it for granted others...
Last week when his press conference assembled, Franklin Roosevelt brushing aside other subjects, picked up a typewritten sheet and, in cold accents so deliberate that reporters could take it down verbatim, he read: "The news of the past few days from Germany has deeply shocked public opinion in the United States. Such news from any part of the world would inevitably produce a similar profound reaction among American people in every part of the nation...
...doctor. Today I have had some experience in practical politics." Republican tactics when Dr. Ten arrives to take his seat at the Capitol may be to demand that he "stand aside" while other new House members take their oaths, then force his Democratic colleagues to defend him. If he is unseated he will not be vastly surprised. Of being tough Hamtramck's mayor he long ago said: "There's a hoodoo connected with this...
...disillusioned freshmen, who were under the impression that the athletic department would "take care" of their promissory notes, discovered to their chagrin that they were expected to use the $48 a month they received from the university...
...fundamentals, with no scrimmaging as yet. Progress thus far has been slightly impeded by the delay in the construction of the new Boston Skating Club rink. Because of this, Coach Hodder was forced to make a second cut after Wednesday's practice until better facilities make it possible to take some of the men cut back onto the squad...