Word: undertook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that the law would kill his constitutional right to keep his two sons, Reuben and John (both under 16), at work in a cotton mill. His complaint was upheld in district court; Farmer Dagenhart found his views so appealed to industry generally that a powerful Wall Street law firm undertook his case. His opponent was Federal Attorney William Cicero Hammer, and Mr. Hammer got himself some help, too-from the Solicitor-General of the U. S., a handsome lawyer named John W. Davis. The case went to the Supreme Court...
...young republic, fearing a warlord of continental Europe, undertook its first full-fledged defense program. From the Federal Government in Philadelphia Whitney got a contract for 10,000 muskets. But New Haven whispered of the queer doings at the new arms factory: Whitney wasn't building muskets at all, he was building machines. When delivery was called for, Whitney could show only 500 muskets and a weird machine shop...
Most baffling of man's seven ages is adolescence. A few years ago a commission of the Progressive Education Association undertook to find out what makes adolescents tick. In a monumental five-year study it examined thousands, collected over 600 case histories. Fortnight ago a Swiss biologist and psychologist, Peter Bios, friend of Sigmund Freud, summed up the commission's findings in a report on four representative youngsters named Betty, Paul Mary and Joe (The Adolescent Personality; D. Appleton-Century...
...blistering Channel coast the story was not quite so derisive. For last week the British gave even Hermann Göring something to think about. In full daylight 50 bombers, escorted by "over 100" fighters (some correspondents said there were more like 500 fighters), undertook Britain's first mass daylight raid on German bases. On succeeding days the British continued daylight raids and their fighters reported machinegunning Germans in trenches near the Channel. The British evidently felt that the time had come to take the initiative...
...Jacob is regularly referred to as El, and Professor May thinks he was akin to the Canaanite Ba'al. With Moses the Hebrew Bible begins referring to God as Yahweh (Jehovah) more often than as El, and when the Jews invaded Palestine with Yahweh as their God they undertook to exterminate the Canaanites among whom Abraham, worshipping El, had spent his life in peace...