Word: took
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Court. How much, asked Mr. Lippmann, had Mr. Roosevelt done about two serious shipping strikes? And a political critic, Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, declaring to the Senate that "there is nothing of greater importance to the nation at the present time," intimated that it was high time the President took action about the Sit-Down epidemic...
Only actions that the President took were to telephone Governor Murphy congratulations when he got an agreement to evacuate the Chrysler plants, to accept an honorary membership in the Phi Kappa literary & debating society at University of Georgia, to sign bills accepting gifts from Old Dealer Andrew Mellon of $19,000,000 worth of old masters (TIME, Jan. 11), from Old Dealer Henry Ford the site for a veterans' hospital in Michigan...
...Dillingham starred with two firsts in the 100 and 200 yard free style events, with E. L. Goldwasser, B. Rogers, and C. N. Pollak also placing in more than one event. The Stevens diving cup was taken by G. W. Dana, while H. L. Rogers took the intramural diving first medal...
What they forgot was that Miss Frances Brawne nearly died soon after Keats; that she mourned him, and cared for his little sister; that it took her twelve years to get over this pink satin romance...
...Brawne, who took Brown's house for the summer still resides in Hampstead--she is a very nice woman--and her daughter senior is, I think, beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange we have a tiff now and then--she behaves a little better, or I must have sheered...