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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Franklin Roosevelt and the U. S. Navy last week performed at sea an act designed to impress a world audience (see col. 1), at home, in Iowa, Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins took the spotlight in the Administration's biggest act for domestic consumption since the 1938 elections...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Restoration in Iowa | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

When Elmer Andrews took office last year as the first U. S. Wage & Hour Administrator, he vowed that industry should be gentled into its new harness. Elmer Andrews last week finally reached for the whip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Elmer's Teeth | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...London Loyalist Ambassador Pablo de Azcarate was called to the Foreign Office and handed his walking papers. In Paris Loyalist President Manuel Azańa left the Spanish Embassy, where he had lived since the fall of Catalonia, and took a train for the village of Collonges, on the Swiss border, where he expects to live in exile. He had left behind his resignation, to be made public at an "opportune moment." As a last gesture of international courtesy a lone French Foreign Office underling saw Don Manuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN SPAIN: WAR IN SPAIN | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

...John Profit, Sp. stepped into the role of President of the Harvard Dramatic Club, succeeding Samuel L. M. Cole '39, at a recent meeting of the thespiane. Norman G. Updegraff '40 was appointed Treasurer while Jervis R. McMechan '42 took over secretarial duties...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFIT HEADS THESPIANS | 3/3/1939 | See Source »

...Crimson started out fast as Joe Patrick took a pass from Austie Harding on a jump into Green territory and slipped it past goalie Wes Goding...

Author: By Mel WAX--DAILY Dartmouth, (SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CRIMSON) | Title: Mermen Trim Indians as Pucksters and Cagers Lose | 3/2/1939 | See Source »

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