take special pains
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Some of them, like Du Pont at Wilmington, Del., take special pains to guard their employes from poisonous C52 fumes.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the scientists who interpret the cloud pictures will have to take special pains to identify the places around the earth that are covered by its Rhode Island-size snapshots.
From Time Magazine Archive
But since she has no husband or children--and thus no immediate heirs--she has had to take special pains to plan her estate.
From Time Magazine Archive
This year the bureau will take special pains to get the count as accurate as possible.
From Time Magazine Archive
If she do not take special pains to prevent it, the erring though well meaning nurse may so compress the body with the bandage as to produce pain and uneasiness, and sometimes severe colic.
From The Young Mother Management of Children in Regard to Health by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
