Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus began over the radio, in full hearing of everyone in Spain, the strangest peace negotiations that ever took place. Somewhere between "honorable" peace and "victorious" peace hard-working negotiators might be able to find an adjective which would bring plain peace to Spain. No doubt remained of the war-weariness on the Loyalist side last week. Little doubt remained that the Franco Government was anxious to wind up the 32-months'-old war that has killed more than 1,000,000 people, exiled half as many. Well it might, for even the Loyalists assumed that when peace came...
Last week a wedding took place in Abdin Palace, Cairo, at which not a single woman, not even a bride, was present. The ceremony consisted of two signatures on a contract-that of the groom, 19-year-old Crown Prince Shahpur Mohammed Reza Pahlavi of Iran; and that of 19-year-old King Farouk of Egypt, acting on behalf of the bride, his 17-year-old sister, Fawziya...
...Emerson, however, jumped into politics with both feet last week as the final balloting on the society's insurance question took place. Anti-New Deal Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett gave a dinner at Manhattan's Plaza Hotel to recruit members for his National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government, and asked Dr. Emerson to speak. About 75 prominent Manhattan physicians were invited to come and bring as guests four of their wealthiest or most influential patients. The committee solicited money from doctors and friends, promised in return to work for the defeat of the "dangerous, menacing" Wagner bill...
...crashed in a wooded ravine. From the flattened fuselage, stretched out like a beached and broken whale not far from where her wing and engine lay, workmen took the bodies of three Boeing pilots, the chief test pilot of Transcontinental & Western Air, four Boeing office and shop employes and two Hollanders who had been thinking of buying Stratoliners for Dutch airlines...
Passengers with hangovers became clear headed when they began breathing a mix ture of 20% oxygen, 80% nitrogen. Others became violently airsick when they took off their masks, quickly recovered when they put them on again. All showed normal pulse and respiration rates, were able to eat comfortably without taking off the masks...