Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week will be a hard one for the 1938 Varsity football team. Both Mondays so far have been bluish, but today will be even more so. Beaten by a Brown team which took them by surprise, battered and bruised after a magnificent stand against the three-deep powerhouse of Cornell, Captain Green and his men saw the powers of fortune let them down in their third attempt Saturday...
...member of the House, he has studied at Baker University (Baldwin, Kans.), Harvard, the University of Berlin, Heidelberg, Oxford. To pay his way, he worked not only as a drayman but as a teacher of philosophy, a lecturer, for one summer as a Methodist minister. His itch for politics took effect one day in 1916 when he substituted for his father on the platform at a Republican rally, made a hit as a boy orator. Elected to the House by his lead-mining district in 1928, he made an unsuccessful try for the Republican Senatorial nomination in 1932, got back...
...minor improvements by the professional. Mr. Roosevelt had placed his bedroom windows badly, had left little wall space for beds. Mr. Toombs corrected this, slightly increased the size and improved the shape of these two rooms (to 13 ft. by 14 ft. and 13 ft. by 19 ft). He took the icebox out of a remote kitchen corner, cut down a huge servant's bathroom to provide a servant's closet, enlarged the living room a trifle (to 20 ft. by 36 ft). Neither amateur nor professional provided more than one closet for two master bedrooms. Facing west...
...Spirit of Locarno." After the Allies had beaten Germany and imposed the Treaty of Versailles, the House of Chamberlain took up its chosen international mission under Elder Son Austen Chamberlain who became Foreign Secretary in 1924. Few days later the British Sirdar in Egypt, Sir Lee Stack, was assassinated and Mr. Chamberlain traded a settlement of that outrage for which Britain was paid $2,500,000 by Egypt. The influence of Son Austen as Lord Privy Seal and Leader in the House of Commons was decisive in achieving exactly what Father Joseph had advocated and died devoutly wishing: the Irish...
After that the Dictator, who has silently digested the views of Fascist best minds, gets up and makes a declaration, telling his Grand Council and every Italian what is going to be what. Last week this process took five hours. When the locked doors of the Grand Council finally opened at 2:30 a. m., it was to disclose new and still more selective decrees in Italian Fascism's already highly selective policy of antiSemitism. There shall be no discrimination, decreed the Grand Council, against Italian Jews of the following seven categories...