Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chicken." Looking skeptically at the little chicken's nude fundament, Mr. Nelson was not so sure. He began to fight with Mr. Berger. At 42nd St. they were pried apart, taken to a nearby station house. Mr. Nelson promptly charged Mr. Berger with cruelty to animals. A policeman took the little chicken into the next room, knocked it on the head, stuffed it into an envelope, marked it "Exhibit A." Mr. Berger was detained pending the convening of night court. That night Mr. Nelson did not appear to press his charges so Mr. Berger was turned loose. He said...
Before starting on a cruise from Hamburg, Germany on her four-masted sailing yacht Sea Cloud, Mrs, Joseph Edward Davies, a director and largest stockholder of General Foods Corp., wife of the U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R., who last year took with her to the Soviet Union 2,000 pints of frozen cream, ordered from the U. S. two tons of frozen fruits, vegetables, and poultry, all packed by a General Foods subsidiary...
...Ickes, whose duty it is to tend to national monuments. Professor Wieland wants Secretary Ickes to spend $95,000 cleaning up the petrified forest and making it easy for paleobotanists to get to. He thinks he has a right to get that done because, besides discovering the forest, he took title to it as a homesteader and then gave it back to the Government for nothing...
Recently, Professor Edward Leffingwell Troxell of Hartford, Conn.'s Trinity College traveled through the tropical Pacific. Although a geologist, he took the trip largely for the purpose of observing "animal adaptation and behavior." Watching for natural phenomena, he studied the appearance of the water just before a flying fish lifted from it. This, said he in Science last week, "was not like the wake of a boat, nor like the ruffled water behind an aeroplane taking off. It was rather a series of dots in two parallel rows, thus : : : : : : :, and was undoubtedly made by the tips of the fluttering...
...resulting in an all-round sales resistance calculated to turn an occidental adman's hair grey. Example: Smarting under the British monopoly, a U. S. client gave the Crow agency a go-ahead on the biggest advertising campaign ever put on in China. Chinese smokers took a few sample puffs, grimaced, went back to the British brand. When another manufacturer duplicated a favorite British blend exactly, designed a beautiful packet, priced it lower, the sales were still nil. Chinese customers, guided by the Confucian maxim that "fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue," merely...