Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...complement of U. S. tycoons. But what they had to say along the standard themes of U. S. management problems lost the spotlight to the embarrassed remarks of the European representatives. Sample: Lord Leverhulme (soap) of England, retiring president: "The more freedom and smoothness there is in the give & take of goods and services between the countries of the world, the more encouragement there will be to the growth of that right temper between nations which alone can diminish the recurring threats...
...Robert B. Lawson, physical director of the University of North Carolina, was asked to stir up a little golf interest among his pupils to stave off mortgage foreclosure on a local country club, he admitted frankly that he "didn't know which end of a stymie to take hold of." His 23-year-old daughter, Estelle (Phi Beta Kappa), knew less. Together they read a book on golf, bought four clubs apiece (brassie, No. 2 iron, mashie and putter) as recommended by the main street sporting-goods store. A few months later they not only had all the students...
...resumed, even the most disappointed fans turned up at Forest Hills once more to see whether Sidney Wood, who has stood out in bas-relief against the current U. S. crop of temperamental young tennists this summer, could extend Defending Champion Donald Budge and become the first player to take a set from him. Even that was disappointing. Budge annihilated Wood, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in a match almost as unexciting as the other semi-final in which his doubles partner, Budapest-born Gene Mako, unseeded because of insufficient singles play, pricked the big Bromwich bubble...
...courses section men themselves call the roll, while in French F and Mathematics A students are employed as monitors in sections containing over 30 men. Instructors in any course, however, have the right to take attendance if "it would be for the best interest of the class...
Catching Curley at the psychological moment when he was writing the speech which he delivered to the Democratic State Convention Saturday afternoon, the Cambridge quintet attempted to persuade the Democratic gubernatorial candidate to take a specific New Deal platform and push it through the Convention...