Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Paul R. Hanna. It is regularly used in Detroit, Sacramento and Denver classes, in many a school and reference library elsewhere. About 110,000 copies of the entire series have been distributed. For the Power issue the largest single customer was the power industry itself, which took 1,000 copies...
...Connie Mack started to sell out. Owner Thomas Yawkey of the Boston Red Sox paid him almost half a million dollars to get Jimmy Foxx, Roger Cramer, Bob Grove, Rube Walberg, Max Bishop. The Chicago White Sox bought Jimmy Dykes, Al Simmons, George Haas, George Earnshaw. Detroit took Mickey Cochrane to manage the Tigers. In 1936 Connie Mack, not looking very different from the way he looked 22 years before (see cut, p. 35), started rebuilding the Athletics...
...those who took the position that phage was not alive was Albert Paul Krueger, who began studying the mysterious killer as a medical student at Stanford. For two years he continued his research at the Rockefeller Institute, went on to the University of California. He discovered a phage of staphylococci (pus germs), showed that its inactivation by heat followed the same course as that of a protein. Poisons such as potassium cyanide and bichloride of mercury inactivated but did not kill it-in other words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute...
...fists against the door of a closet until the wood paneling splintered. A lady Philharmonic subscriber heard of the incident, drove with her chauffeur to the stage entrance, begged to be given the door as a sacred relic. Allowed to carry off a few of the splinters, she took them reverently home to be enshrined...
Financially the Eagle took the most terrible beating. The Guild's most effective strike activity was a campaign to cut Eagle advertising, conducted with all the originality the newspapermen could give it. Pickets in full dress stalked before Manhattan theatres advertising in the Eagle, a hairy "gorilla" picketed a beauty shop until its distressed owner got an injunction against such tactics. Picketing of Brooklyn and Manhattan stores, plus a "consumers campaign" against national advertisers, undoubtedly cost the Eagle most of the 184,000 lines of advertising it dropped in the past three weeks...