Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University crew rowed three miles this morning, while the other crews took longer rows of five miles apiece. In the afternoon the first eights went to the three-mile mark trying racing starts under the eye of Coach Brown, while the Jayvees repeated the same performance shortly after...
...Intercollegiates at New York, Captain Reid ran a classy field into the ground to win by a good margin. The team took sixth place...
...Graduate School, got his engineer-father to rig an ordinary amateur cinema camera at the small end of Princeton's 23-inch telescope. They slowed down the camera's action 100 times, since a lunar day passes 9/1000 as fast as an earthly one, and took a picture of how dawn comes to Copernicus, one of the moon's biggest pits. Because the moon has no atmosphere, there is little or no crepuscular glow. The sun ''rises" abruptly, deep black shadows retreating sharply before it. In the Arnott film, shown last week by Princeton Professor...
...president of Pan American Airways, with J. Von der Heyden, sales director of Consolidated Instrument Co. of New York, and Mrs. Von der Heyden; at Wilmington, N. C., when their plane crashed on a week-end flight. Both men were expert flyers. Earlier last week Flyer Von der Heyden took New York Governor Roosevelt's wife on her first flight...
Albert Einstein, able sailorman, took command last week of the mahogany-finished, auxiliary sailboat given him by friends on his 50th birthday (March 14). He will navigate the Havel river...