Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Birdie Taylor took complete charge of the Jimplecute. In 1926 the paper was sold. The new owners immediately changed its name from Jimplecute to plain Journal. "Miss Birdie" carried on the job printing business, still runs it at 76. Last year the Journal changed from a daily to a semiweekly. Its 2,000 readers supposed that like almost everything else in their quiet, moss-grown city, the Journal would now drowse off to sleep...
...membership: 300), and the world was cocking an eye at these scandalous "free lovers" who called their goings-on "stirpiculture." Within the Community, eugenically weak males struck at the favoritism shown their betters, got a skim-milk ruling that they could father one child. The favored, select, few "stirps" took the cream. Work was planned collectively, law & order in the same way. Noting the failure of similar groups throughout the country, to make ends meet by straight farming, Noyes and his shrewd, God-fearing colleagues turned to canning fruits and vegetables, manufactured the world-famed Newhouse steel trap, made silk...
Professor Groves started one of the first courses in marriage in the country at Boston University, and then went down to do more work at the University of North Carolina where he is stationed at present. He taught several summers at the Harvard School of Education, and took the place of Henry W. Holmes, dean of the school, in one of his courses when Holmes was sick...
...scene that made our heart leap up to behold the prophetic power of the President's plan. For in one of the scientific research labs on the other side of the River--the kind of place one never goes to but which makes the University famous--we took part in a tingling drama in American historical development...
...keep Frankie out of trouble during the operation, and we were quickly handed a Campbell's soup tin stuffed with ether-soaked cotton to hold like a cone over the animal's nose. But it was no go. For Frankie was tough, and soon revived. He took one look in our direction to assure himself that the opposition was coming from the same quarters as before, and acted...