Word: take
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seed is planted on a thin slice of cork floating in the solution; the floats are kept damp until tiny rootlets come crawling down into the water, when the plant can take care of itself. Six foot sweet peas, tall dahlias fed on food pills have bloomed profusely in winter at room temperatures...
...training at Speculator, N. Y., to say that he expects to administer a knock-out to Heeney. Word flew, as it often does, to Heeney at Rumson Farm Kennels in Fairhaven, N. J. The Irishman from New Zealand snorted: "Well, blime me if that doesn't take the royal cake for gall. . . . The papers are the only place Tunney knocks out anybody. Why, he couldn't stop Dempsey when the old Manassa...
...Herr Doktor Siegfried Schiff, 66, a Berlin physician, said sternly to reporters on the North Sea Isle of Heligoland, last week, that he was about to take a swim "solely for exercise." Plunging in Herr Doktor Schiff swam completely around Heligoland, about three miles, in 4 hours and 35 minutes...
John D. Clark, president of Midwest Refining Co. of Denver, Col., director of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, vice president of Pan-American Eastern Petroleum Co., announced that he would desert his business to take a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins University in law and economic research in order to fit himself for a permanent position in the profession of teaching...
...Washington as a lieutenant of aviation and attached to the Royal Flying Corps in Canada. After the Armistice, mustered out as a captain of aviation he went to Racine as sales promotion manager of the J. I. Case Plow Works Co. When, five years later, he left Racine to take his present position, the newspapers wrote editorials lamenting a municipal loss...