Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contrast with this what have we now? Examine the current January issues of Reader's Digest, TIME, New York Herald Tribune-Paris Edition, The Christian Century, publications which we believe are effective creators of public opinion at home and abroad. Taken together, do they or do they not leave the impression that American journalism-with one or two notable exceptions-has entered a dangerous campaign of hatred...
Natty and indignant, Chip appeared before the committee to defend his fee. He claimed that engineering work on the project had put him $110,000 out of pocket, that he had taken Georgia's Governor
...came to do my duty," he informed General Rodríguez. Fast-talking Antonio Rodríguez explained that he had taken over the chief executive's job because Benavides had sailed for Europe. "That is untrue," replied the Sergeant Major. Minister Rodríguez, according to the official version of the story, lunged for the officer's gun. It cracked twice and Rodríguez fell dead...
...State Health Commissioner of Maine, reported that there were 5,000 cases of scurvy among the lumberjacks and farmers of Aroostook County, on the northern border of the State. Reason : thousands of Aroostookians are unemployed, with no money to buy lemons or oranges, and not many of them had taken the trouble to grow and can tomatoes, which are especially rich in Vitamin...
...Milton Fund of the University, and the members of which are analyzing the light variations of the two or three thousand brightest variable stars and will before the conclusion of their study amass more than a million observations and record the behavior of these stars on photographs taken since...