Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...second day Spectator Vines watched Defending Champion Johnny Goodman, the last of the Walker Cuppers, ousted by Connecticut socialite Dick Chapman, who took a nip of whiskey out of a Coca-Cola bottle after every hole, kept the gallery in suspense until he finally conquered his opponent, 2 & 1. The field of 162 had narrowed down to four -and still Spectator Vines could not leave Pittsburgh. Pat Abbott was one of the semifinalists, along with three other dark horses: 23-year-old Edwin Kingsley, a husky Utah ore sampler who had tasted his first sip of fame when he eliminated...
...moon-faced John Cobb, 37-year-old London fur broker, the challenger. Over Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats, considered the most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally break the world's land-speed record of 311 miles an hour, set last year by Captain Eyston...
...only 24 hours did King Cobb reign. Next morning, Captain Eyston took his second turn. With his Thunderbolt revamped (tail fin removed and square nose streamlined) he regained his crown with a speed of 357 m.p.h., only 83 m.p.h. less than the fastest man has flown. He reached a velocity of 525 feet a second (the muzzle velocity of a high calibre revolver bullet is 700 feet a second). Oldsters along the course sighed as they remembered the turn-of-the-Century astonishment when Henry Ford's 999 traveled at the incredible speed of a mile a minute. Scientists...
...like a nova, or exploding star. Astronomers were sure that the increased brilliance would be accompanied by generation of additional heat, but they were mistaken. For the temperature of Gamma dropped from 28,800° F. to 15,660°. Last May the star attained its greatest brilliance, suddenly "took a nose dive," said Dr. Baldwin, as its light ebbed. Paradoxically its heat increased. It is now at normal temperature again. At present it is racked by tremendous disturbances and is "blowing away its atmosphere." Most logical explanation, said Dr. Baldwin, was that Gamma's compressed atmosphere expanded...
Eighteen-year-old Ben Freedman, son of radio's late No. 1 Gagman David Freedman† left for Hollywood to write Al Jolson's radio scripts, took with him his father's private file of 40,000 jokes...