Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over here is really blunt and to the point...Many Americans (including the politicos) have the idea that wherever America sends aid and money, we are greeted with open arms. I have heard many Greek people express the opinion that the country would be better off if the Americans took their dollars and left Greece to its slow and inefficient way... These people are not Communist sympathizers, by any means...
...This school was founded in 1936 by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., which has been operating in Persia (now Iran) since 1870, when it took over the work that the American Congregationalist Church's mission had begun there in 1834. It has U.S. textbooks, curriculum and, mostly, American teachers. The student body is made up of 51 Americans and 245 nationals from 27 other countries. They are the children of businessmen, diplomats, and refugees who have found a home in Iran. In order to enroll they have to pay tuition and have an adequate...
...desperation was no defense, and the long arm of the law soon grabbed him where his lapel should be. But upon hearing of his plight they took pity. He was listed as a sleepwalker...
...Harvard, will represent the Americans in the low hurdles, against Brooks of Cambridge and Williams of Oxford. The high hurdles will see a fight between Leonard Philips of Yale against Crimes, formally of Yale who will run for the British. He has run the event in 15:5.6. Phillips took the Eli-Crimson meet...
...more modern picture there is hardly enough dancing to whet the appetite. To make matters worse for the "Barkleys" Ginger Rogers took her interim foray in serious acting so serious as to attempt to portray Sarah Berahardt reading the Marseillaise. This is about the aesthetic equivalent of Jimmy Durante playing Abraham Lincoln at Get-tysburg...