Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trying out may take the negative or affirmative side of one of three subjects: Resolved, That Neville Chamberlain has brought 'peace with honor' for our time; or That this House favors the adoption of the Government Reorganization Bill of President Roosevelt; or That Republicanism, not the New Deal, represents true Liberalism...
...workers calmly grasped the rod, pulled it out, rushed the boy to Metropolitan Hospital, where doctors made an incision in the chest, fished out a small circle of trouser which had been pushed up by the rod. When they made a slit up the abdomen to take stock of the damage, they found kidneys, liver, stomach, heart, lungs, glands,arteries and nerves miraculously intact. Only injuries were two punctures through the bowel which were quickly stitched up. Said Dr. E.H. Hambly, reporting the case in The Lancet last fortnight: "The patient made an uninterrupted recovery...
...August 20 the Cubs were nine full games out of first place, with only an out-side chance of catching up with the league-leading Pirates-or the Giants and Reds who were threatening to take the lead. But as the Pirates faltered in the home stretch, the Cubs, well aware that there was about $5,000 in World Series swag for each player, kept inching ahead in one of the most exciting stretch finishes since 1908, when the National League race ended in a dead heat...
Grand Illusion (Erich von Stroheim, Pierre Fresnay; TIME, Sept. 26). You Can't Take It With You (James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore. Edward Arnold; TIME, Sept...
...London, publicity-wise Dress Designer Elsa Schiaparelli opened her fall show. Excerpts from the catalogue (called "Trajectory"): "Coats & jackets foretell the future, their insides stuffed with baby feathers. . . . Hats made of fur or fluff come within the realm of logic. . . . Colors take on the nature of dreams but gold sheds its earthly influence on all we wear...