Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...links Kirkland took Dudley 6 1/2 to 2 1/2, Eliot nosed out the Dunster golfers 5 to 4, and the Bellboys sliced their way to a 9 to 0 shut-out over Leverett. The Adams-Winthrop match was postponed...
...seven to a traditional master, spent two years learning to draw a circle and two straight lines. For seven years he was allowed no color. One result of this discipline was a skill which his Sacramento audience found as exciting as a circus. Another result, possibly, was that Obata took ship for California at 18. A good friend of the late great Botanist Luther Burbank, he still gives as much time to his garden in Berkeley as to his teaching at the University of California...
...year's crop was estimated at 3,500 carloads (Oregon, 2,500; Tennessee, 2,000). Last summer 200 strawberry growers around Hammond, La. got a lawyer named James Hobson Morrison to organize them into the Louisiana Farmers Protective Union and protect them from the chain stores. James Morrison took a sound truck around the State, before long had 10,000 members. By last week he had made almost every chain "kiss a pigeon"- which in Louisiana means to knuckle under, to cry Uncle...
Orchestra Leader Vincent Lopez took out a copyright on his new, streamlined version of The Star-Spangled Banner, became the only person to hold a copyright on the U. S. national anthem...
...been seen in the east. All but two were from Duveneck's best period, the 1870s and 1880s. During those years Duveneck was a famous expatriate with one of the largest followings among young painters that any U.S. artist has ever had. A big, Viking-bearded Bohemian who took the Munich Academy by storm at 21, then opened his own school in definace of it, Duveneck painted in the spirit of Frans Hals. In such paintings as The Bohemian (see cut, p. 36) he showed an almost equal mastery of brush modeling...