Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dean of the Orthodox Rabbinate" in the U. S., and his son, Israel Herbert Levinthal, director of the Brooklyn Jewish Centre. The succession was broken when the only male in the present generation, Lester Lazar Levinthal, went to Harvard to study law. Though Helen Hadassah Levinthal could not take her brother's place, she was guided in her studies by a Jewish precept: " 'Study the law for its own sake'-that is, for its richness and beauty, the intellectual pleasure and spiritual edification one receives...
...about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses her, wham he MacMurrays her. Fans fagged out with so much traveling take the producers' word for it that the happy couple have enough energy left to make another trip to Bali for the honeymoon...
...Normal U. S. adults get all the vitamin D they need when they bask on beaches, and, if they drink plenty of milk, need not worry about calcium regulation. But to make best use of the calcium in their diet, pregnant women and children need extra amounts, must take daily doses of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil. Of the numerous commercial foods fortified with vitamin D, "only milk needs to receive serious consideration." Best type of fortified milk is "metabolized milk," drawn from cows which are fed irradiated yeast...
...write this dispatch 21 bombers are raining heavy bombs on the oil and alcohol refineries. The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. In this infernal din set up by screaming sirens, barking anti-aircraft guns and the roar of bursting bombs I can't take my mind off the shivering of the wall of this ancient hotel. If it holds together until I can get this off, then I will believe in miracles...
Thus if the U. S. could take over the markets dropped by the belligerents it could practically double its exports to Latin America. The only competitor still free to bid against the U. S. for the market is Japan, and the U. S. has a big lead on her. For not only has the U. S. long since entrenched itself as the No. 1 Latin American trader, but Cordell Hull's Good Neighbor policy and reciprocal trade agreements have begun to persuade Latin America to believe that Dollar Diplomacy is dead...