Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...netted $10,236,000. Last year, although its gross business rose some $4,000,000, its net fell to $7,039,000. Reason: I. T. & T. took a $3,561,479 loss on foreign exchange, for many good sound I. T. & T. earnings in foreign currency turned out to be pin money when translated into dollars...
...shared from childhood the artistic interests of his mother ("one of the most extraordinary persons I've ever met"). At Dartmouth, besides playing two years on the soccer team, he edited a magazine called The Five Arts. In 1930, he married hearty, charming Mary Todhunter Clark of Philadelphia, took her honeymooning around the world and settled in a big remodeled farmhouse near the golf course at Pocantico Hills. Since then they have had five children: Rodman, Ann, Steven and the twins, Michael and Mary, born last year...
...fresco for Rockefeller Center. This turned into a famous, first-class educational incident for all concerned. When Rivera's great mural was destroyed-for the public reason that it contained a portrait of Lenin-the Rockefeller family suffered once more in the eyes of liberals, and Nelson, naturally, took the rap. At first he was strong for showing the mural, sins and all, at the Museum of Modern Art. Then he came around to his father's view that the less said and seen, the better...
...with tasty food, his dyspeptic humors with tasty compliments, sparkled wittily for his friends, never complained of poverty or the isolation of dismal winters on the godforsaken farm at Craigenputtock, kept her mouth shut when he was talking, swallowed her humiliation when he spent his evenings with Lady Ashburton, took a back seat for 40 years, and in the end convinced Victorian contemporaries that the Carlyle marriage was a gruff idyl. Her reward was the affectionate petname "Goody," the company of famous men, her husband's fame...
...ghosts of Henry Fuller, an old friend, Conan Doyle, Mark Twain, Jack London ("Why not Columbus?" asked one irritated ghost). Violet Parent and an assortment of dead Indians, padres and conquistadors, who told him where more crosses could be found. When they were not, the voice of Henry Fuller took charge. Result: 16 new crosses, found mostly under loose rock and bushes. Five museums to which Garland submitted his finds remained annoyingly skeptical...