Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...similar murder took place but a short while past near Niagara Falls and struck horror in the breasts of everyone sensitive enough to experience the shock of useless death. The circumstances of the present outrage are such as to awaken even more intense sympathy. The facts that the victim was accompanied by his family, was a full fifteen miles from the border, and possessed not a trace of alcohol in the car, all combine to awaken popular recognition of an affair, the barest facts of which are hideous...
...announced a suspension of business. The "frozen" condition of $6,000,000 in assets left the company unable to meet the calling of $4,000,000 in loans. Taylor, Ewart & Co., established in 1911, has distributed securities with a total value of more than $50,000,000. It recently took part in the syndicate underwriting of many new issues, many of which have been among the notable contributors to present slumps in stock prices. It was admitted that the suspension might become permanent...
...Park West, 62nd street and 63rd street, sold for $12,000,000, will be the site of a 65-story office building. The Century was dedicated in 1909 as a great national theatre where Art was to prevail over Commerce. But Art lost so much money that Commerce finally took over the theatre, where Morris Gest produced Aphrodite and The Miracle. No details of the proposed building have been announced but its 65 stories will undoubtedly rank it with the world's highest. Cost of land and building is estimated...
Harvard's athletes took examinations at their hotel, finished twelfth in the meet. Newscameras sought out the Dartmouth captain, because his name is Gerard Swope Jr., son of the General Electric president...
...Keech of Philadelphia won. His Simplex Piston Ring Special averaged 97.583 m. p. h. This was slow driving for Winner Keech, who in 1928 held the world's speed record by moving 207.55 m. p. h. at Daytona Beach, Fla. But it was not easy, for he took the notoriously low-banked, treacherous Indianapolis turns without lowering his throttle. His skilled chauffering won him about...