Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high and low pressure, each several hundred miles in diameter, roll like atmospheric groundswells-the lows bringing overcast and rainy weather, the highs fair skies. Compared to this relatively placid atmospheric topography, the antics of West Indies weather are fantastic. In that tropical neighborhood, pits of low pressure suddenly take form, airy abysses miles deep into which winds from the high-pressure areas rush from all sides not at 30, 40, 50 m. p. h. but at 75, TOO, even 200 m. p. h. Such an abyss formed late last fortnight northeast of Puerto Rico...
...would be the next man in line by seniority: Chicago's diligent old Adolph J. Sabath. But Mr. Sabath, 72, is not forceful. Gossip in Washington last week was that he might be asked, as a good New Deal soldier, to step aside and let a stronger man take the great Rules chair -perhaps a veteran drafted from some other committee like California's Lea (Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic Congressional Committee). In Chicago, Mr. Sabath...
This impromptu pressure group fools that if it can persuade Curley to take a definite progressive, liberal stand it can spike the Republican Liberal guns under Leverett Saltonstall '14, former speaker of the State House of Representatives...
...pass, kick, fight for that extra yard--keep the old legs pumping all the time. He has a very distinct idea of how it feels to get out into the clear and watch the safety man dive at him desperately--and miss. It feels grand. And he can take it when the going gets tough, too--uphill all the way. Frankly, at times Vag thinks Mr. Harlow ought to know more about Vag. Just because he sometimes writes pretty sentimental stuff about the things he likes or about things which floor him doesn't mean that...
...Wellesley Miss, fortify himself with all his stadium impedimenta, and be off to Soldiers Field to watch the season's premiere against the Browns. As far as the game is concerned the Vag promises to confine himself to yelling. He figures that some of the other boys can probably take care of the ball-toting and signal calling well enough...