Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to Manhattan, took teachers' examinations and flunked in English grammar (Mr. Lewis still has to correct her speech). She tried writing short stories, then drifted into social work. She disliked it ("I loathe the social workers' jargon, the way they discuss people in case loads"). So she got a job addressing envelopes in the woman's suffrage headquarters in Buffalo, and that gave her the chance she wanted. Soon she was stumping all over upper New York State. She was husky and exuberant, she needed a cause, and the pay left her something to send home...
...took root in the U. S. and Canada long before Founder Williams died. Its American backers, beginning 50 years ago, did far more than those of any other nation to extend its work throughout the world. They also shifted its emphasis. Today, with some 1,900,000 members in 10,000 local associations in 60 lands, the "Y" is no longer exclusively evangelical or Christian; Jews may belong.* Most people now think of the Y. M. C. A. not as a religious organization but as a chain of semi-public young men's clubs, with gymnasiums and clean beds...
Hubert's parental pride offended, he took a punch at the intruder, knocked out three of his teeth. The stranger, a policeman in civilian clothes, picked himself up, arrested Hubert. A magistrate's verdict: guilty of disorderly conduct. Sentence: suspended. Upshot: Mr. Hubert went home to pose for news photographers beside his weeping...
...25th Harvard class reunion, Massachusetts' long-toothed Governor Leverett Saltonstall rounded up the members of his famed junior-varsity crew,* took them for a spin on the Charles River (Saltonstall rowing...
...Orchestra (Jeanne Behrend and Alexander Kelberine, pianists, the Philadelphia Orchestra with Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor: 6 sides). By the Colorado-born composer (Rhumba Symphony, Lament for the Stolen) whose work the Philadelphia Orchestra has consistently given first hearings, and who last week, following the orchestra's recent troubles, took over his duties as its latest manager. The bang-up last movement of the concerto is based on two Mexican dance rhythms, the Juarezca and Malague...