Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biology, Chemistry, and Physics have all increased their concentration enrollment reversing the trend of the last decade from the pure sciences. These sciences and the two newly established fields of Architectural Sciences and Indic Philology have taken up some of the slack caused by the decrease in the Social Sciences...
Though the course, which deals with Boston and its suburban slums, is merely an academic one in the eyes of the University, the government has taken an interest in it as a means to place its employees under the tutelage of one of the country's experts in alum districts and housing problems...
Professor McLaughlin of the Harvard Law School has taken the Crimson severely to task for its stand against prominent men who have publicly supported the Allies. Based on the assumption that the present war is a holy crusade of angels against devils, he has charged that the editors of this newspaper have "hysterical inhibitions against the thought of war." He goes on to characterize all who stand for American neutrality as fatuous, emotional, and cowardly, and supporters of the Allies as the only true, hard-headed logicians. On the contrary, the Crimson pleads for an unemotional, clear-headed survey...
...scrap-buyers, resumed their 1937 agitation for stopping tonnage export of U. S. scrap (favored by American Iron and Steel Institute President Ernest Weir, who also favors the embargo on munitions exports). There is a genuine scrap squeeze, mostly because Japan, England and other foreign buyers have taken 16,700,100 tons of scrap out of the U. S. in the last decade...
...fire and dash of Dumas' book have been taken out of the print and put into celluloid with remarkable skill. The fire, or at least the heat, emanates principally from Joan Bennett, who is making a noble effort to cash in on the Technique Lamarr with a black wig and a sultry eye. Though she's no Hedy, she'll do. The dash is supplied by Louis Hayward who really carries the show. With two vividly contrasting parts to work with, he has ample opportunity to prove himself a persuasive actor,--and he does...