Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consider extension, revision or junking of the present so-called Neutrality Act, important provisions of which expire May 1. To hear the Elder Statesman all but two of the 23 committeemen turned out.* Also present, though no committeeman, was North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. ("Neutrality") Nye, who took copious notes...
...Flanders and without changing from his muddy kit appeared in the House of Lords to tell publicly just what was wrong with the ammunition supply system serving the troops in France and Belgium. Former Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (now Earl Baldwin) called him "that good man Jim Stanhope" and took him under his political wing, but Lord Baldwin also saw to it that important statements made by Friend Jim (who was then First Commissioner of Works) were written in advance and carefully checked for impetuosity...
...when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. . . ." Even his calculations were naive and almost innocent, as when he stealthily evaded the War Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins' big (649-page), definitive biography to have been somehow distracted-like an actor who pulls the trigger but the pistol does...
Biggest event of Villard's boyhood took place on September 8, 1883, near Helena, Mont., when in the presence of Indians, Civil War generals, Cabinet officers, editors, barons, ambassadors and financiers, his father drove the spike that completed the Northern Pacific. Three months later his father was bankrupt. Biggest event of Villard's manhood was the collapse of Wilsonian liberalism. Between these two catastrophes he studied in Germany, took over his father's paper, the New York Evening Post, when he was 25, fought for woman suffrage and good government, backed Wilson so ardently that disillusion...
Group championships in epee, foils, and three-weapon fell to the U. S. Naval Academy, while Columbia captured first place in the sabre. In the individual championships Manzo, U. S. Military Academy, took first place, as did De Poix, Naval Academy, in the foils, and Campo, also a Midshipman, in the Sabre. Final three-Weapon Standing Epee Foil Sabre Total Navy 28 1/2 29 23 75 1/2 Army 21 1/2 19 24 64 1/2 Columbia 18 16 26 60 N.Y.U 14 21 24 59 City College 15 24 16 55 Harvard...