Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then a bus line was put through to Keu Kong, and young Fung Kwok-keung took to hanging around the bus depot, developed a vast interest in things mechanical. Mechanics made him think of America. So he let the elder Fung know and his journey to the U. S. was arranged. Hounded by reporters from the time he docked in Vancouver until he stepped off a train in Manhattan, Fung Kwok-keung, unable to speak a word of English, threw himself weeping into his father's arms...
With this scene enacted, Frank Hague took his affable puppet to Trenton to be inaugurated as the first New Jersey Governor to serve three terms. Before receiving the State's Great Seal from Harold G. Hoffman, the man he gave it to three years before, Mr. Moore wrote himself a letter of resignation as U. S. Senator. His first act in office was to acknowledge and approve his own resignation, Ms next was to appoint John Milton to the U. S. Senate...
...Franco's capital, workmen piled a double row of railway ties between the arches of a double colonnade that supports one side of the city's great Plaza Mayor, filled the intervening space with sand bags. This was to be a refugio against possible air raids. They took their time about it, for in over a year's warfare no Leftist planes had appeared over Salamanca. Leftist authorities had repeatedly promised that civilian centres would never be bombed by their planes. Nonetheless, Salamanca was surrounded by the very latest German anti-aircraft batteries. Last week in Salamanca...
Egypt's habitable land is chiefly a cobra-shaped ribbon stretching along the Nile from the broad delta at Alexandria to the narrow rocky cataracts of the Sudan border. Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey. They went to celebrate the wedding of Farouk, their 18-year-old king, to Farida, meaning "unique," his 17-year-old Queen...
...especially marked if one considers that he should now have easier sailing than during the first years of 'planned economy,' from 1929 to 1933. . . . More Communist heads have fallen, either literally or figuratively, during the last year than in any year which has passed since the Revolution took place two decades ago. . . . The autocrat publicly drinks in the adulation of sycophants and privately dreads the unseen assassin. . . Czar Paul of Russia was strangled by a group of officers who were apprehensive of sharing the fate of the many victims of his capricious ruthlessness...