Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hard times are an old story to the Gardens. The first World War took experienced help away and cut public support; deterioration reached such a point that the curator resigned in despair. Only revived interest and generous benefactors saved them--the thirties found the Gardens beautiful once more, and the visitors still came...
...four previous discussion took up the question of "Values for Modern Man" in four specific areas of learning. Professors Howard Mumford Jones and F.O. Matthiessen spoke Monday on values from the point of view of "Arts and Letters." At the second meeting professor Sorokin and others discussed values in the social sciences...
...horse-trading sessions, in which the Joint Chiefs worked out just enough of their problems to enable them to submit a budget to the President. The Navy finally got its long-desired 58,000 ton carrier, more or less as part of a deal in which the Air Force took over all strategic bombing and the Army got the Marine Corps cut down to a fraction of its former size. Procurement of materials was centralized in one agency, and a munitions board was set up to try and cut the severe overlapping in buying arms. Research agencies were consolidated...
...took a long drag on his beer and glowered at the two idiots capering in the middle of the floor. They had been capering for nearly two hours now, and Vag wished they would go to bed. But the idiots went right on with their rhapsodic swaying...
...think that the dining hall system would profit from an impartial survey by a firm of restaurant specialists." It is perfectly true that the four to one vote for this survey cannot be considered a responsible student mandate because the question was phrased in the abstract, and took no consideration of the possible disadvantages of such a survey. It offered, in short, a simple, unthinking way to express general dissatisfaction with Harvard food...