Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week New York City schools closed to let children take advantage of a special, eleventh-hour, five-cent admission to the local World's Fair. Besides those who went through the turnstiles, from 75,000 to 200,000 whooped in without paying a cent. And then they took over the Fair...
...American Independence League as expressed in CRIMSON editorials are short-sighted or cowardly. Such use of epithets puts us almost back to the days when even sauerkraut must be called" liberty cabbage." Their program is true Americanism. If this is cowardice our forefathers were double cowards, because they took advantage of the embarrassment of the Hanoverlan dynasty with the French to withdraw from the British Empire in the wars...
...past, Union Committees have become partially defunct each spring, when class officers were elected. These officers were charged with appointing the committees which run the two big Freshman affairs, the Smoker and Jubilee. They also took over a large share of the management of class activities...
...looked like an anachronism appeared from nowhere. He was tremendously interesting from the point of view of both the Egyptologist and the psychoanalyst and even to Vag. It seemed almost certain that he was scurrying off to some clandestine meeting, deep in the entrails of Boylston Street, so Vag took pursuit. Of course it was bitterly disappointing to Vag's visions of international intrigue when he saw the little man turn off and head for Harvard Hall, but still hopeful, Vag followed him into the lecture room and procured a seat directly behind him. Instantly the little man produced...
...Commissariat of Information were such pillars of French letters as Paul Claude), the Roman Catholic poet and onetime Ambassador to the U. S., and Paul Valery, who presented the first wartime performance of the Comedie Fran-Qaise. André Maurois took a post in the censorship under Jean Giraudoux (TIME...