Word: taken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayor explained that the $100,000 figure was arrived at only after careful consideration by the committee, "having taken the proportion of the total budgets of the fire and police departments, and the valuation of exempt real estate owned by Harvard bears to the total value of real estate in the city...
...fortress of loop-holes. The worth of the adoption of the suggestion is to be tested by the amount of leeway allowed. True it is that there are many situations where set rules cannot be applied,--where inefficiency or injustice would be the result. But care must be taken that what start out as exceptions to general principles now subscribed to do not become the rule...
Another nine-year-old boy became "athletically inclined." When he reached high school, he became captain of the football and basketball teams. After almost seven years without attacks, he was taken out on a high-school party to celebrate a successful football season, and broke his training by gorging himself on pop, ice cream, and hot dogs. Within five days, in spite of his well-developed physique, he had three epileptic seizures. A return to his low-water diet ended his attacks, and he has had none since...
After a chase from the Indoor Athletic Building to the intersection of Mt. Auburn and De Wolf Streets Friday afternoon, a posse of 50 irate upperclassmen finally captured and turned over to the police a man who had taken a wallet containing $63 from the locker of Rene Peroy, fencing coach...
Reason for the small number was given as the fact that it was the second, or intermediate, in a series of increasing difficulty. All of the eleven men had taken the first examination at some time, and a great many of the rest of those who took the primary test dropped out before the prospect of another test and more outside reading...