Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yardling skiman Bill Hinton took the Vermont State downhill championship on the Nose Dive Run at Stowe Sunday, leading a field of seventeen college skiers. Crimson captain David Emerson lost a ski early in the race...
...Munroe's third in the breastroke, and Hutter's magnificent second in the 440 that saved the meet from being decided by the last event, the open relay, which Yale won. It is worthy of mention that the crowd gave Hutter the greatest ovation not when he took the 220 in record time, not when he took the 100 in record time, but when he pulled through with the second in the quarter-mile grind...
Launched last year the two ships were tested separately on the water and in the air. For weeks, coupled together like giant dragon flies, they taxied over the Medway, off Rochester, Kent, finally flew locked together above Short Bros, big plant. One afternoon last week they took off again, Ace Test Pilots John Parker and Harold Piper at the controls of Maia and Mercury, respectively. At 700 ft., flying 140 m.p.h. with conditions perfect, Chief Pilot Parker telephoned up to Pilot Piper: "Is everything all right?" Then: "One, two, three, go." Thousands of Sunday strollers cheered as the two seaplanes...
...money paid him by Authoress Blair Niles. It was seven years before he made his successful fifth escape. Again he got an Indian dugout, with five fellow-fugitives headed for the U. S. Fourteen days later, lucky to be only half dead, they reached Trinidad. The sympathetic British took them in, gave them a new boat, told them to push on. In Colombia, their boat wrecked, robbed by Indians, they skulked naked along the coast for a week, finally reached a Colombian town, where they were arrested. Belbenoit's comrades were deported. He was allowed to escape after writing...
...papers, in Weik's possession, were locked up. When the late Senator Beveridge wrote his life of Lincoln, he drew on them, paid a glowing tribute to Herndon, but advised Weik to refuse permission to other biographers. Weik took his advice so literally that for 30 years students could not get access to the 8,000 pages of material. Now in the Huntington Library in California, it has been drawn on by Emanuel Hertz, author of Abraham Lincoln-A New Portrait, in editing The Hidden Lincoln. A belated testimonial to Herndon's integrity, The Hidden Lincoln...