Word: taken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inasmuch as Boston has an enormous greater metropolitan population, the city's tax rate reflects the cost of services for all the daily commuters. In Massachusetts, the low State revenue contributes only a taken share to the city of Boston's coffer. Thus many of the low tax rates in the surrounding towns and cities are the result of Boston's taking care of the big population most...
...fenders are pared off. Outsize tires on the right side are allowed to help the driver negotiate turns. The cars take a terrific beating but the fact that they seldom have to quit a race seems to indicate how substantially they were built originally and how well they are taken care...
...beaten road there is tolerable travelling; but it is sore work, and many have to perish, fashioning a path through the impassable." Those for whom the lure of the Big City grows insuperable as the weekend approaches have taken refuge for many years in these words of Carlyle as they sought their way through the tortuous sidestreets of New Haven...
...taken 10 years and 69 contracts to complete just the Milford Meriden section of the Wilbur Cross, and almost two decades to bring the Connecticut parkway system to its present state, stretching from the southern border to the town of Vernon...
...statement supporting his article, "The Threefold Crisis in Our Universities," in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Harris claimed that the financial pinch today has forced college professors, even at Harvard to do extra work to support themselves. "On fashionable Brattle St. professors have taken in borders...