Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last Saturday Princeton swamped Navy 52 to 23, which is a pretty decisive beating. Navy took only one first place of the nine events, the 440-yard free-style, won by Holt with time of 5:09.9, a naval Academy record. Princeton took the rest of the races easily, breaking two intercollegiate records...
...Thus disguised as a coolie, he arrived in the Forbidden City without being detected, but disclosed himself to the civilian officials. A fanatical mob led by Buddhist monks stoned his house. Bill McGovern slipped out through a back door and joined the mob in throwing stones. The civil government took him into protective custody, finally sent him back to India with an escort...
...composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right and should continue. I told him what I could teach him wouldn...
...Besserdich sold out for $25,000. That was a mistake, for General Pershing had found several F.W.D. trucks useful while chasing "Pancho" Villa across Mexico. When War broke in Europe, the Allies began buying F.W.D. trucks in quantity. When the U. S. joined the Wrar, the U. S. Army took over F.W.D.'s entire output. By 1918 it had bought 16,000 F.W.D. trucks, and spare parts equivalent to 14,000 additional trucks. F.W.D.'s 15,000 shares had run up to $580 a share...
...Berlin, Pilot Hanna Reitsch climbed into an autogiro standing in Deutschland Halle, took off, sailed up to the cupola, circled the hall, landed where she started from...