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Word: takings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...somewhat inclined to feel, at this time of year, that the boys who have not done well, having failed to take advantage of the opportunities that are undoubtedly here, deserve little mention or consideration. . . . It is too bad that some boys won't awaken to their responsibilities and do what they can do to measure up to the best that is in them. About all one can hope for in such cases is that some day such boys will realize how foolish they have been and strive to do better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A THOUGHT FOR '39 | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

This year's Economics staff will be considerably decimated by the coming departure of seven annual and one Faculty instructor, who will take up posts at other colleges and universities next fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Burbank Resigns From His Post As Economics Department Chief | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...Take sex out of the dance and its charm has departed . . . The Indian girl in the American forest was safer than the American in the ballroom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kirkland House Reform Group Regards Dancing as Sex Orgy | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...three and a half months. He lights a cigarette, lets the smoke curl out of his mouth and hang in mid air motionless. No sir, no one could get him to walk fast now! He'd walk as slowly as he darned well wanted to. He'd even take the long way back to the house, just to show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/14/1939 | See Source »

...took a war to get women out of corsets, says Designer Hawes, and it will take a more drastic upheaval to get men into sensible clothes. Says she, it might be worth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stripped | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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