Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made it clear that they favored a softer way of life (sometimes called "Beneluxury" because the Benelux countries, particularly Belgium, like it so much), with a high volume of more or less free European trade in all directions and relatively heavy purchases of consumer goods. "Cripps," one observer explained, "took the line of the husband whose wife is spending too much money, and who favors a reduction in her allowance. Schuman took the line that the husband should earn more money...
...Cyrus Hamlin of Bangor, Me. took off for the Turkish province of Bulgaria. His instructions: "The people needs to be taught to read, hear and reflect." Few did more to teach Bulgarians to read and to reflect than Cyrus Hamlin and his Protestant missionary friends. They translated the New Testament into Bulgarian and helped bring out the first periodical in the Bulgarians' native tongue. When the Turks massacred Bulgarian rebels in 1876, it was the missionaries' protests that did much to make Bulgarian liberation into a world cause. After the liberation in 1878, the missionaries stayed...
...crushing taxes, which each year take ?65,000 ($260,000) of the ?70,000 ($280,000) she receives. But what really did her in was last year's "capital contribution," which raised her tax bill to ?100,000 ($400,000)-?30,000 ($120,000) more than she took in. Unless the Lords permitted her to dip into capital or borrow on future income, Lady Mountbatten would become a tax delinquent...
After 23 years in 76 roles at the Met, Basso Ezio Pinza, 56, opened in New Haven in his first musical, Broadway-bound South Pacific. His role: an island planter. Busy taking bows, he took time to say "au revoir and perhaps goodbye" to opera. "I am crazy to get into a straight play," he told an interviewer. "... I would have to have a strong part, a great lover or some other really dramatic role, and I think I would be good...
...Willard C. Rappleye, dean of the faculty of medicine, able and genial boss of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons for the past 18 years, to become vice president in charge of medical affairs. ¶ Paul H. Davis, general secretary of Stanford University, until he took the same title at Columbia in 1946. As vice president in charge of development, he will be the university's top planner and coordinator of new educational projects...