Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...leaving the part of Spain he was in seemed the prudent thing to do. At the Milch Galleries, a young U. S. painter of romantic renown showed 19 unusual paintings of the Maine coast. Husky Stephen Etnier, Yale '26, married pretty Elizabeth Jay, of Westbury, L. L, and took her to sea on his schooner, the Morgana. Then they bought an island at the mouth of the Kennebec River and retreated from the world. Results: from Mrs. Etnier, a best-selling diary, On Gilbert Head; from Mr. Etnier, more & better clean, sea-breezy paintings of clambakes, sailing ships, ocean...
...18th Century London journalist & man-about-town. Playwright Jackson had failed to scrape together enough action for three acts. What he had written was a costume play on wordy marital misunderstandings. When the critical votes were counted, there were no thumbs up. After six performances the Marches & Director Cromwell took the hint with rare good humor. Their show closed the next night, but before it did Marwell Productions took to the advertising columns of Manhattan's newspapers with a graceful exit line...
...monstrous, almost transparent companion has not yet been seen or photographed. It was deduced from spectrographic observations made on Epsilon Aurigae. Its size, constitution and temperature were determined after it passed in front of Epsilon Aurigae in 1929-30, like a cloud in front of the moon. It took nine years for the Yerkes people to evolve a conclusion about this unique star which would fit the observed facts...
...year. John Bunn is basketball coach at Stanford. He served his apprenticeship at the University of Kansas where he played and later taught under famed Coach Forrest C. ("Phog"') Allen-within reverent earshot of Physical Education Professor James Naismith, basketball's inventor. In 1930 he took over basketball at Stanford, where the game had long been regarded as "sissy." He began to experiment with a jumpless game. Four years ago he tried it out, got Southern California's Coach Sam Barry to join him in a crusade for his new style of play. Last year while...
...course dinner, was during his lifetime as famed as a salesman as he was as a gastrophile. If his stomach was gargantuan, his entertainment expenses and the sales that followed were epic. The Brady fable got its pith from Charles A. Moore, founder of Manning, Maxwell & Moore, who took Brady on as a cub salesman in 1879 when the company was only a jobber for railroad supplies, sent Diamond Jim out on the road with instructions to spend all the money necessary to make customers like him. Diamond Jim stuck to this tenet through the panic of the middle nineties...