Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From New York the contagion of prison revolt last week spread to the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan. It infected U. S. convicts with a fit of riotous fury which took six hours to cure. The prison temperature was 100°. Spanish rice was repeated at the noon mess. Nine hundred of the penitentiary's 3,758 inmates rebelled, threw their food and plates about, broke windows, seized knives and forks. Ordered back to their cells, they bolted for the prison yard where they screamed curses, milled about frantically, became altogether unruly. When a fire hose failed to break them, guards...
...stamped last week on a model A Ford. The first million took 13 months; the second million six months, 20 days. Third million will take even less time...
With the cup at stake, young Player Lott played hard and headily. He took ten games from Cochet, including the second set at 6-3. But his brilliant shots were mixed too much with just-misses. His backhand was specially spotty. He let Cochet have the next-to-last...
When Tilden played Borotra, a great career, at least, ended appropriately. Borotra took a set before the Tilden placements began to find their marks. Then Borotra had to leap indeed, to race backwards, forwards and sideways. Wearied by the doubles of the day before, he was utterly exhausted when the umpire called the final point Tilden's. The score...
...trounced Miss Marjorie Gladman, the 1927 Junior champion. Then she trounced Miss Eleanor Goss, No. 5 ranking player in 1927, by the tidy score of 6-4, 6-0. In the finals she started to trounce Miss Edith Cross, No. 3 national ranker, by a burst of speed that took the first set 6-3. Miss Cross steadied, won the next sets 6-4, 6-2. But Miss Mary Greef will not again go unseeded at Essex. She lives in Kansas City. She is 19, a supple, medium-size blonde. She puts more body into her shots than most girls...