Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With education in his blood, too, Alcott set out on the road once more. This time he peddled not notions but what he called Conversations- informal but high-souled colloquies of 20 or 30 people. These Conversations never degenerated into arguments; if they did, "Alcott simply took refuge in the uppermost silences...
...With a radical acquaintance, Tootsie Maltz, as front, he engineered a shipping clerks' strike, succeeded in tying up deliveries in the garment district. At that point Bogen organized his own delivery service, soon had a near-monopoly in the garment trade. As reward for forensic services rendered he took Tootsie in as partner...
...Martha took up an increasing amount of his time and his money. To make a hit with her he drew more and more cash from the business. To get the cash, he persuaded simple-minded Babushkin to open a private account, cash firm checks there and hand him the money. Bogen explained this procedure to his partner by saying that it was a scheme for beating the Government out of a big income tax. As Bogen's pursuit of Martha got more expensive but no more successful, so much money went down the drain that the firm...
Fernald won both hurdles, the broad jump, and tied for first in the high jump. Ogle took the hundred, Light-body the 440, Eugene Clark the mile, Lloyd Milis the 220, Childs the half, Shallow the hammer, Ed Ford the javelin, and Nat Heard the shot put. Only Exeter first was registered by Rendleman in the discus...
...work of the Forest, the oldest scientifically operated demonstration tract of its kind in America, has been substantially reorganized in the past year by Ward Shepard, Director, who took the post last May after serving in the United States Departments of the Interior and Agriculture...