Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...making his political debut. Son & heir of the Lord President of the Council, Viscount Hailsham (who served as Acting Prime Minister briefly in 1928), Mr. Hogg is rated one of the most brilliant young lawyers in London. Whether the 30,000 assorted voters of the city of Oxford would take to him and to Munich in preference to The Master and his League of Nations line was an exciting question...
...Danube and the Japanese all over the Far East. It behooves the Empire to stand fast, and a great cementing gesture was made last week when George VI was graciously pleased to appoint H. R. H. the Duke of Kent to go out to Canberra in November 1939 and take over the job George V could not get for Gloucester...
Last week in Washington was held the 25th annual congress of the New Thought Alliance, an extraordinary federation of Christian societies which, unlike Christian Science churches, believe in the reality of matter, take only the Bible as their revelation, maintain preaching ministries, accept ''love offerings" for their work...
...architecture now." Said he: "What has been done for you, or to you, here in Williamsburg, has advanced our cause of modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left us." Up in arms, as one man, rose Colonial-conscious Virginia...
Said Bogeyman Welles: ''Far from expecting the radio audience to take the program as fact rather than as a fictional presentation, we feared that the classic H. G. Wells fantasy . . . might appear too old-fashioned for modern consumption...