Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Philadelphia some 50 members of the Kingsley Club rose to their feet, spoke their pieces. Half-a-dozen took an extreme test before a radio microphone. Not a speaker faltered. Recited Philip Fairstone, 15, a high-school student: / try the teacher's patience, I start the pupils roaring; I break up the monotony Of classes that are boring. I am a stammerer...
...Derby winner. Kentucky hard boots liked Bull Lea, who had broken two track records in his two races at local Keeneland this spring. Hollywood visitors (like Joan Bennett, Jack Pearl, Joe E. Brown) made sentimental bets on Myron Selznick's Can't Wait. Long-shot players took a chance on Elooto, named after Owner William O'Toole, and hoped he would not run in reverse like his name. Only a sprinkling backed Lawrin, the hillbilly colt, even though he had won the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park last winter and had beaten Stagehand in the Derby Trial...
...strong joys of Nazi Germany, German propagandists get out an elegant monthly review published in six languages. Last summer, Robert Lange, an energetic young liberal journalist in Paris, decided it was high time for France and the other democracies to begin a similar crying of their wares. He took his idea to Edouard Herriot, who talked to Leon Blum. Government backing was promised. Last week, at a graceful little ceremony in Paris, Minister of Education Jean Zay welcomed a handsome new publication, Monde Libre (Free World), attributed its inspiration to President Roosevelt's "quarantine the aggressor" speech in Chicago...
...papers signed. Before Pilot Lieut. Lewis J. Connors saw Krebs, he saw the "go" signal from the field's control tower and started the plane along the runway. Before Krebs realized what was happening it was too late to jump. He slid astride the fuselage as the plane took off, hung on by the edge of the rear cockpit for dear life. He thought he was in for a pickaback ride all the way to St. Louis. Fortunately a traffic control officer saw him and radioed Pilot Connors to land. As the plane rolled to a stop, Krebs slid...
Samuel Calthrop, born too early, reaped nothing but satisfaction from registering his train with the U. S. Patent Office. It was not until hard times sharpened their wits and aviation pointed the way that U. S. railroads took up streamlining. In 1934, with nearly one-third of the country's Class I roads in bankruptcy, with autos, busses, airlines fast sponging up passenger traffic, the railroads began to come out with so-called "neo-trains," fancy to look at, fancy in performance. First to enter scheduled service was Chicago, Burlington & Quincy's famed "articulated" streamliner, the Zephyr...