Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago the Archbishop of Canterbury took as Primate of All England a straddled position on the bill, saying he would abstain from voting, and this freed the tongues of such unconventional clerics as the Bishop of Birmingham who last week cried: "I challenge the suggestion that bishops of the Church of England should not vote for the bill because remarriage after divorce is contrary to the traditions of the Church of England. . . . One of the merits of the bill is that it would promote morality"-i.e., tend by making remarriage easier to lessen the temptation to adultery...
...Deserters of the Franc." There were 3,636 tons of gold in the Bank of France when the Popular Front took office last year, and of these only 2,504 tons remained last week, dramatically revealed new Finance Minister Georges Bonnet...
...Madrid last week United Pressman Henry Gorrell had fun with a typical visitor to Spain's war-torn metropolis, steered him into a cafe. "He was enjoying his beer," cabled Mr. Gorrell. "when the 'something' he wanted to see took place. There was a high-pitched whistle, followed almost instantly by an earshattering roar. Glass showered over the cafe tables as people dropped to their hands and knees. When the cannonading was over I took the visitor out into the street again...
...York Morning Telegraph, former general manager of Hearst magazines and onetime president of the New York American, in the final conferences on which his understanding and advice were much solicited. Even more keen last week was Mr. Hearst's sense of loss when heart failure also took away Morrill Goddard, 70, the last great editor of his youth, whom he bought away from Joseph Pulitzer at the same time that he bought the late Arthur Brisbane, and who created and until his death presided over the most successfully Hearstian of all Hearst properties, the gaudy American Weekly. Same...
...week, more formal, he bowed from the waist. Before the interruption, Budge had won the first set, 6-3, taking the last five games in a row. After it, with almost unplayable serves and drives that made chalk fly from the corners of his opponent's court, he took the second set, 6-4, after von Cramm had had a lead of 4-3. When von Cramm broke Budge's service from 40-love in the second game of the third set, it was his last flicker of resistance. Budge then won four games in a row, carelessly...