Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico, Correspondent Kluckhohn's reports soon took on a tone unsympathetic to the Cárdenas regime. He was the first reporter to discover that proletarian Mexico was bartering expropriated oil for products from Nazi Germany. He reported the woes of foreign businessmen with such zeal that Mexican authorities lost patience...
Publisher Hearst took it over from its printer and paper company in 1934, in a deal which presumably permitted him to ignore its back debts unless it made money. In 1937 he got Butterick Co.'s 68-year-old Delineator the same way, rolled the two magazines into one. But admen last year bought only slightly more than two-thirds as much Pictorial lineage...
...Hollywood, Motion Picture Research Project, headed by Dr. Leo Calvin Rosten and financed by a Carnegie Corp. grant, took offices on Hollywood Boulevard, to conduct a year-long survey of movies, moviemakers and movie society, findings to be published in book form by Harcourt, Brace some time...
...Chinese companies make pictures in Cantonese (South China) dialect, two in classical Mandarin (North China) dialect. Chinese movie stars are borrowed from the Chinese stage and music halls. Average picture-production cost is about $15,000. Invasion by Japan has not interrupted Chinese cinema production. While Sable Cicada, which took two years to make, was in production at Shanghai, the studio was bombed twice. (Studio officials kept blueprints of the sets so that, in case of serious damage, they could be promptly rebuilt...
...platform and descended the steps. No need for a hand rail has energetic Dr. Sigerist who often takes the steps in one leap. Students enjoy his lively classes, for Dr. Sigerist does not mind expounding his dynamic conception of medical history in hand-to-hand argument. A student once took issue with him, and when Dr. Sigerist asked him to quote his authority the student shouted, "You yourself said...