Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kind of training to which she was accustomed. So the Committee's sober Chairman Avery Brundage threatened to kick her off the team. Her newspaper friends, who had been finding the voyage dull, set the radio crackling. By the time the Manhattan docked and Mr. Brundage had made good his threat, factions in the athletic world were divided in partisan schisms. Eleanor was thoroughly sore and dejected. In her suitcase she had a $1,000-a-week theatre contract contingent on her winning another championship. Then she got off the boat to find herself besieged with theatre offers, among...
After this unexpected turning point in her life, Swimmer Holm turned professional, did a Tarzan movie with Olympic Decathlon Champion Glenn Morris (which proved that she might have listened more attentively to Mrs. Dillon), made more money than she had ever seen before. She met Billy Rose at the 1937 Cleveland Aquacade, where her curvesome capers pleased him as well as the customers...
...student at The Bronx Public School 44, he made the track team by learning to jump the gun without detection. After he won a shorthand championship with a broken finger by ingeniously sticking his pen through a potato, he became a demonstrator for the Gregg shorthand system. His specialty was taking notes with both hands from a phonograph chattering 350 words a minute. This inhuman proficiency took him to Washington, aged 18, as organizer of the stenographic force for Bernard Baruch's War Industries Board, where he had occasion to record the thoughts of such dignitaries...
...Alfred K. Hebner, 52, engineer, guided a General Motors subsidiary to a $10,000,000 business, became assistant to General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan, helped develop the corporation's present budget system, which "made 70 General Motors millionaires in six years." He left General Motors in 1927. Since 1934 he has worked at WPA administration jobs, more recently tried unsuccessfully to sell annuities...
...Next he made a pair of crutches from limbs of a nearby tree. In spite of pain and weakness he began hobbling along the tracks. What happened in the hours that followed no one knows. At the end of seven hours, a mile from the patch of weeds where he had left his amputated foot, he fell fainting before an astonished train crew...