Word: taken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nothing's Too Good for Grandpa" . . . highlights again the significance of Jose Ortega y Gasset's verdict that the world "is suffering from a 'vertical invasion' of the masses; it has been taken over by the commonplace mind" [TIME...
...disputants traveled to Washington. There, at the head of a delegation of 71 officials of the nation's steel companies, Fairless met a very weary-looking Phil Murray. They posed together for photographers. Said Ching: "Let us all say 'cheese' when we have our picture taken so we will look pretty." Then they got down to business in the Labor building...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff, he declared, the Navy was under the thumb of the two other services, who "may have a landlocked conception of national defense." Unless "corrective action" was taken, Crommelin planned to resign and "fight this potential dictatorship from without the service...
Southern Californians in their teens and twenties had taken to jalopies and hot rods. The thing to do was to buy an old car, preferably a '32 or '33 Ford and strip it down to the essentials. With a flair for mechanics and enough money ($1,000 to $2,000), a kid could go on from there, transform his jalopy into a well-engineered hot rod, complete with extra carburetors, lightened flywheel, supercharger and five to ten coats of glistening lacquer...
Most children hate being fitted with new shoes-unless they are taken to a store where they can look at their toes in an X-ray fitting machine. Then it's fun. But last week, in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Charles R. Williams of the Harvard School of Public Health warned about the harm that this type of fun might cause, through overexposure to X rays...