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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Usage:

...four Freshman dormitory committees, selected annually to assist the proctors in directing Freshman affairs, were announced yesterday at University Hall. The appointments, which were made by the head proctors in each dormitory, have been approved by Matthew Luce '91. Regent of the University, and take effect immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DORMITORY GROUPS FOR FRESHMEN ARE NAMED BY PROCTORS | 10/16/1929 | See Source »

...West Point, which trains men to sweep that civilization off the face of the earth, and on the other hand by the fact that the business department of the Harvard Athletic Association has invited here the West Point cadets in the name of the student body, no demonstration will take place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Socialist Club Will Not Stage Anti-Army Demonstration on Day of West Point Game--Officers Issue Statement | 10/15/1929 | See Source »

...theatre, M. I'Admimstrateur is right next to the Spanish cinema," said he. "Between us is an unused courtyard. Every night when the theatre is closed I take the poster boards down from in front of the theatre and store them in this courtyard. This Spanish type, he does the same thing with his posters. Very well, morning after morning I have found the French posters torn to shreds, the Spanish posters untouched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOROCCO: Spanish Goats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...grim, accumulative ferocity of these events is marred by the introduction of a romance between the prisoner and the warden's daughter. But it would take much more than this to emasculate Mr. Flavin's play. Largely through the gruff eloquence of the high-principled warden, magnificently acted by Arthur Byron, Mr. Flavin damns the tragic system that man has developed to police the race, makes the so-called science of penology seem as hideously false as some black, antiquated alchemy. Russell Hardie conveys every horrific tremor, mental and physical, of the unfortunate youth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...seems dubious. At any rate, little operators met in Los Angeles last week, formed the Association of Independent Operators, tried to make up their minds whether to stake everything on proving the conservation law unconstitutional or to sign the contracts sent out by the co-operative association, and take their chances on later smoothing out what they considered its inequalities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Gas Re-cycled | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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