Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets were crawling with a new three-wheel pedicab which had largely displaced the old, coolie-pulled jinrikisha.* These provided the driver with pedals to push with, but they still left him boorishly up front. Visionary Tanaka decided to give his country a more cultured conveyance. He took his savings and ordered a tricycle pedicab built, with the driver's seat in the rear. Then he hired himself out as a ricksha...
Most of them took dismissal philosophically. One who rebelled was Dr. Florencio Loza, for eight years on the federal bench of La Plata. "I have never allowed any outside influence to interfere with justice in my court," he wrote in an open letter to the Minister of Justice. "I .thought it was my duty to devote to my job my best efforts. With this record I now leave my country's judiciary...
...young lieutenant had other ideas. "The oath I took when I graduated as an officer," he declared, "binds me to the duty of defending my flag and nation according to the principles of the constitution." Then he sent a telegram: "Dear Father, with pain I have declined the opportunity to join you, requesting instead return to the post of duty to which I am bound according to the principles of personal and military dignity you taught me. Your loving son, Froilan...
...Boston, Mayor James Curley, who has done time on a mail fraud rap, took a backward look at his life & hard times. "I might have taken the primrose path," he admitted righteously, "but I chose the thorny path-trying to do something for the needy, the unfortunate. Any man that takes the hard, thorny road will always be accused of being a boss and a buccaneer...
Chosen to keynote last week's meeting was a fashionable Paris doctor, ruddy-cheeked Raymond J. Weissenbach. He took the scientific approach...