Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Godesberg the Führer demanded 12,000 square miles of Czechoslovak territory, Germany has now received a grand total of only 10,885 square miles. More heartening was word that Germany would like to cut in with Britain on the forthcoming U. S.-British trade agreement. Germany would take what U. S. and Dominions raw materials Britain could not absorb, pay the British for it with German machinery, chemicals, optical goods...
Meanwhile in Prague public resentment against having to take care of thousands of Sudeten refugees, a good many of them Jews, rumbled into an anti-Semitic demonstration, Prague's first since Nazi annexation of the Czech territory. University students and young doctors milled about the famed square of Wenceslas, named for the Czech patron saint, and chanted "Down with the Jews," "Czechoslovakia for the Czechoslovaks." Cafés were invaded and many frightened Jewish patrons hustled into the streets before police dispersed the demonstrators...
Last summer in London, Ballet Dancer Serge Lifar of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was severely criticized for taking curtain calls while the audience called for the ballerina. Ever since, Lifar has been grumpy, dissatisfied. Last week in Manhattan he challenged Ballet Director Leonide Massine to a duel in Central Park. Massine told him, "Take an aspirin." In a huff Lifar took instead the S. S. Champlain for Europe...
...Central Australia, a more radio-wise part of the British Empire with a rural isolation problem, flying physicians go out on radio calls. Ranchers, farmers, miners have pedal radio transmitters, take exhausting rides on stationary bicycles to generate power for calling the doctor by radio...
...minutes after a take-off from Montgomery Airport, the right motor of an Eastern Air liner bearing him and ten other passengers to Atlanta caught fire, shook off. Fire licked along the wing. Bracing himself for the inevitable crash Passenger Connolly took from his coat pocket the rosary his convent-school daughter, Mary Jac, 13, gave him just before he left New York...