Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agnes took them too. She soon began inventing her own steps, kept up her practicing all through school. But Agnes was no ballerina ("Nothing gave, nothing stretched"). Ballet refused to take her seriously...
...boom about over? After a summer lull in public speculation, the pundits took up the question again...
...shell. When held tightly, the egg survived harder shocks. When cushioned with rubber in front, it lasted even better. The hardiest eggs were snuggled against a cushioned block that slipped a little when the swing hit the steel, allowing the egg to come to a slow stop. It took a powerful shock to crack such a coddled...
...Chicago, A. W. Zelomek, president of the International Statistical Bureau, Inc., took a gloomier view. Recession, he said, is ahead. He foresaw 1949 as "a year of deflation," one which, while not as severe as the 1920-21 postwar collapse, would last longer...
...seen the picture in London. Deutsch charged that "even . . . Dickens . . . could not make Fagin half so horrible," and warned that the film would fan the flames of antiSemitism. In Manhattan, the Board of Rabbis appealed to Eric Johnston to keep the movie off U.S. screens. Other Jewish groups took...