Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
...from Paris, the trustees bleakly refused to accept the gift. They gave no reasons, but Philadelphia art circles babbled with conjecture. The trustees were piqued at not being consulted, said some. They were being city-loyal, said others, and saving the work for some Philadelphia artist. Some people who took the trouble to view the Fulop paintings guessed that the trouble lay right there on canvas...
...best all around performance of the day was the work of Crowley the one man track team from Roxbury School in Connecticut. This star athlete took a first in the shot and discus with a second in the high and broad jumps; his heave of 50 feet, 8 1-2 inches from the record set last year by his teammate Kilcullen...
...outstanding performance of the day was the work of Morin of Prouty High, brother of the star Holy Cross sprinter. Morin took first in the broad jump with a 22 foot, 7 1-4 inch leap which broke the existing record by a foot, and beat the wining jump of the class A group by 11 inches. Another feature of the class C events was the high jumping of Moissio of Fitchburg who established a new record with a 5 foot, 11 1-2 inch jump, equalling the winning mark of class A. Hayes of Somerville took one fifth...