Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laugh, win friends, do as you please! Why grub for gold when "You Can't Take It With You?" Thus speaks Grandpa Vanderhof, who, when entering his office one day, hearkens to his own words, turns on his heel, and never goes to work again; who is the patriarch of the maddest and merriest household establishment ever on exhibition. By the adequate light of a firmament of stars, Frank Capra has depicted well the story of the Vanderhofs, with their fire-works, ballet-dancing, xylophones, and discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash...
...Seniors on this year's team saw the turning point of two seasons against the Tigers, the 14-14 tie their Sophomore year and the 34-6 victory last year. It is no secret that Harvard has an excellent chance to finish the season four and four, if they take the high road today. If not, there still remain the hillwillies of Virginia carded for later...
Through such appeals the Court has been overloaded, and "has not only been forced to take sides in essentially political controversies, but also to decide technical, economic, and business problems in what is bound to seem to the defeated interests and artificial and legalistic way," he said...
That fact is not very startling, but the time is important, for it has occasioned the shifting of Harvard's first football rally in 13 years from outside the Dillon Field House to inside Briggs Cage. It was generally felt that the Tigers will have to take a real taming tomorrow and hence should not have to take a moral taming today...
...hollered loud enough for everyone to hear that I was going to take the fighters out back and referee the bout. They looked sort of worried and one admittede he didn't want to fight out back. The other thought he saw his chance to stay in the game, and he said he didn't want to fight either...