Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a visit to quaint old Cracow, M. Delbos said good-by to Polish hospitality and hurried on to Rumania. In Bucharest, he was feted by hard-boiled King Carol and harder-boiled Premier George Tatarescu, who took time out from their labors in preparing to strong...
...tumbling from their beds to dash for crude shelters as warning sirens screamed and the dull throb of German Zeppelin motors advanced through the grey-black fog. Determined to be better prepared to protect the civilian population in the event of another war, the House of Commons last week took up for its third and final reading the Air-Raid Precautions Bill...
...resisted his driving and scolding. To Stalin as to his people this week's election is a milestone. Last year when he gave them their Constitution, its terms made clear that the time had come when his driving and scolding could give place to leadership. Before the election took place he had evidently revised his theory for the time being. How capable Russia's ignorant masses are of assimilating democratic doctrine, how capable Joseph Stalin is of permitting them to do so in fact still remains to be demonstrated by the experiment of last week's election...
...last Sunday, when the Washington Redskins played the local Bears for the professional football championship, that they sent asphalt burners out onto Wrigley Field to try to thaw it. They might as well have sent Frigidaires. Because cleats would slip like ice skates on the frozen ground, the teams took to the field wearing basketball shoes. In the stands 14,000 Chicagoans shivered. Some 1,200 Washingtonians were there too, because in the single season they have had a major-league professional team, Washingtonians have gone crazy about the game...
...took union members a year of rehearsals, threaded between sewing hours, to get Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...