Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pagos, on shore leave, seamen from the Houston beheld two huge hawks swooping down upon a herd of wild goats. Each hawk seized a kid in its talons, started to flap away. Hurling stones at the hawks, the sailors made them drop the kids, which they took aboard the Houston as gifts for the U. S. Naval Academy...
...away the monumental box. Concluded philosophical Reporter Casey: "Maybe there is something significant about that." Certainly the creator of the Maytag washing machine would not have understood the peace that returned last week to his "City of 12,000 Friendly Folks." C. I. O. workers in the Maytag plant took a 10% pay cut, gave up their 13-week strike and returned to work. But the spirit with which they returned was not what Father Maytag had fostered with good pay and generous gifts. They went back with a gripe against Son & Heir Elmer Henry Maytag and Iowa...
Called to the stand to substantiate his story, Convict Dwyer first collapsed. Next day he took the stand, cocky and glib. When defense lawyers asked him what had happened to Mrs. Littlefield, who was not mentioned in the Carroll indictment, young Dwyer replied that Carroll had strangled her with Dwyer's belt in a remote spot in the hills. "I turned my face away," said Paul Dwyer...
...Philadelphia, a young woman carrying a babe in arms handed a grubby $1 bill to Chief Investigator George Dooley of the Registration Commission, announced: "I took a dollar from a man to change my registration to Republican. It's dirty money. I can't keep...
Japan had no claims north of the Tumen until she took over Manchukuo six years ago. The boundary of Manchukuo joins the Tumen somewhere near Changkufeng Hill and recently the Japanese decided that the hill would be nice to hold. The Manchukuoan border was easy to argue about, since it was fixed by the Sino-Russian treaty of 1886 of which Russia holds the only known copy (China's copy was unaccountably lost). So fortnight ago the Japanese seized the hill. The Russians fought back and all last week Japanese communiqués were filled with accounts...