Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a 24-thread line, 10/0 reel and 18-oz. rod tip (much lighter tackle than is generally used), Mrs. Sears boated a 730-lb. blue marlin, a new world's record, in the Bahaman waters off Cat Cay.† It took her only one hour and 27 minutes to stop his rushes, lick him, land...
...Dayton, Ohio, 67-year-old Orville Wright, who with his late brother Wilbur Wright flew the first airplane (at Kitty Hawk, N. C., 1903), took a 30-minute ride on the DC-4, biggest U. S. commercial landplane; his first flight in ten years. Said he: "It was a wonderful and delightful experience...
Chief problem was how to fly there. He had serviced many a plane but had never piloted one. Mechanic Eshleman forthwith took eight hours' flying instruction, four hours' solo...
Novice Eshleman, an astral gleam in his eye, took off for what he said (in a letter to the press) would be Mars, 51,813,800 miles away.* Near Philadelphia he alighted briefly to take on 55 gallons (which, he later explained, was to carry him beyond gravitational pull, whence he could glide the rest of the way). He took off again, headed north over a fog-blanketed Atlantic. By the time Owner Walz had raised the alarm for his $2,600, uninsured monoplane, Cheston Lee Eshleman was skittering hither & yon, munching chocolate, trying to find a hole...
...their rights have been invaded, they get mad, form picket lines, write letters to editors, buttonhole legislators, in short, act like the political citizens they are. Protestants, whose aggregate weight is much greater, appear by comparison either meek or musclebound. But last week in Philadelphia a Protestant group took off its coat, rolled up its sleeves and displayed capable biceps. A meeting of 500 Protestant ministers and laymen gave enthusiastic endorsement to a League for Protestant Action. Among other things, the League announced its belief in the proposition that: "No group, whether racial, nationalistic or ecclesiastical, should be allowed...