Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken or to be taken in future...
Year ago, the 1,650-ton Spanish Leftist destroyer José Luis Diez limped into Falmouth, England, seriously damaged by Rightist air bombs. Most of her crew of 60 left the ship, claiming that they would be shot as "Reds" if they returned to Rightist Spain, as "deserters" if taken back to Leftist Spain. A loyal skeleton crew took her to France for repairs, and fortnight ago the José Luis Diez was again ready for action...
...hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should go down in history as the greatest aviation contribution since the advent of the Wright Brothers." But Frank Hawks will not get his year's subscription: he had taken his last flight, suffered his final crash...
...Australia won the biennial series in 1934, again in 1936. This year the first two games were drawn, the third abandoned because of rain, the fourth taken by Australia. The mythical "Ashes," famed prize of Anglo-Australian cricket, were created by a monumental British joke: a facetious epitaph for English cricket, published in the London Sporting Times in 1882, after a visiting Australian team had trounced England at her own game...
...Upperclassmen as well as Freshmen the fifth issue of the Crimson's Confidential Guide to all courses open to first year men and all fields of concentration should be more useful than ever. Greater care has been taken with the opinions of concentrators and of the Class of 1941 on the teaching of courses and the organization of the twenty-two fields. Since the Guide is designed to serve the College, it is written entirely from the student point of view. Its editors nourish two hopes for the 1938 Guide, that the information presented will interest the brilliant student...