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Word: takes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Worst thing wrong with the pictures is that no plane on a carrier would be headed, as Artist Matejko's are, toward the ship's stern, either before take-off or after landing. They invariably land at the stern and take off at the bow in the same direction as the carrier is traveling, thus utilizing the carrier's ground speed to achieve their landing or take-off air speeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Cameras & Artists | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...With the new season abnormally slow in starting, there were fewer shows than usual to divide the take. 2) With a war on in Europe, many Manhattanites stayed home, many expatriates returned to Manhattan. 3) Fed up on the World's Fair, New Yorkers developed theatre appetites. 4) A final horde of out-of-towners arrived for the Fair. 5) During October, New York had a World Series, an auto show, and 108 other conventions to bring in other out-of-towners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gold Rush | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...Once he saw Ned Sparks in the audience. Walking to the footlights and pointing, Barrymore shouted: "There's that old bastard Ned Sparks." Once he couldn't hear the prompter in the wings, yelled: "Give those cues louder!" Once he said to the heroine: "I'll take you to ," couldn't remember "Lake Como...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Scotch Mist | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...aiming for a bridge across a drainage ditch, the cruiser slithered off the roadway, sprawled across the ditch like a stricken turtle, its blunt snout ignominiously under water. A woman hitch-hiker who had been perched on the stern jumped off, fled. Driver Poulter cheerfully estimated that it would take several days to get the monster rolling again, looked forward to the vast stretches of the Antarctic snow fields, where there would be plenty of room to maneuver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dreadnaught Ditched | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...sympathetic system (between the second and fifth vertebrae) which lead directly to the heart. With exquisite care Dr. Raney avoided damaging other surrounding tissues, left enough nerves intact so that the patient could feel the "warning signal" of angina. Thus, although free of pain, he can still take proper precautions to prolong his life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Short-Circuited Heart | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

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