Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give them an idea of its peculiar properties, he described his own experience after taking a handful of reefers (marijuana cigarets) as an experiment. He crawled into a bottle of ink, stayed there 200 years, took a peep over the bottle's neck, ducked back and wrote a book about what he saw. When the book was done, he popped out of the inkwell, shook his wings, flew around the world seven times...
With equal smartness Noel Coward has played the roles of actor, composer, librettist, playwright, autobiographer. Last week he took on a new role. A few weeks earlier his latest musical show, Operette, had opened in London, got distinctly chilly reviews-which jangled Coward's nerves. Sympathetic as a family physician, the British Admiralty promptly sent him on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, bade him find out what British sailors like in the way of movies...
...soccer ball through two bottomless peach baskets one winter afternoon in 1891, he had no idea he was inventing what was to become the most popular U. S. winter sport, basketball. Instructor James A. Naismith was just trying to keep his restless charges from getting bored. The class took to his pastime with such enthusiasm that the Y. M. C. A. began teaching basketball in other cities. By 1893 the game had been brought to Detroit...
...Henry Picard, Hershey, Pa. professional, the annual Masters' Golf Tournament on Bobby Jones's tough home course in Augusta, Ga., with 285 strokes, three under par. Bobby Jones took 297 strokes and 15th place, was so encouraged by his comeback (last year he was 30th) that he said he might come out of retirement to enter the National Open in Denver in June if he was not required to play through qualifying trials...
...Piccard, he built a 14,500-lb., 1,950-h.p., trimotored plane with a 60-ft. wing span, designed to carry 20 passengers in its hermetically sealed cabin, to fly 250 m.p.h. at 28,000 ft. One afternoon last week Belgium's crack test pilot, George Van Damme, took it up on its first flight. At 150 ft. the machine wavered, bucked, but continued climbing till it was 2,000 ft. up. Suddenly it faltered, nosedived, crashed. Dead in the broken cabin was Pilot Van Damme. Only cause of the accident which occurred to observers on the scene...