Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...studies Dr. Szent-Györgyi found that the adrenal glands secrete a substance, ascorbic acid, which he subsequently discovered to be the same thing as Vitamin C. To further these studies, Dr, Szent-Györgyi needed large quantities of ascorbic acid, and his pursuit of it took him to a half-dozen European universities and the Mayo Clinic at Rochester, Minn, where Dr. Edward Calvin Kendall, isolator of thyroid hormone and analyzer of adrenal cortex hormone, provided him with a big stock of adrenals fresh from South St. Paul stockyards. He still was not able to get enough...
...last week while all Wall Street watched, President Roosevelt was closeted with his two chief Wall Street policemen- Chairman William 0. Douglas of the Securities & Exchange Commission and one-time Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy. Though no connection was admitted by those involved, within two days the New Deal took a step for which brokers and bankers had clamored since the stockmarket smash began over ten weeks ago. Without offering explanation, the Federal Reserve Board reduced margin requirements for stock purchases from...
Meantime in Manhattan denials popped from nearly every important banking door. A sweeping Morgan denial took in almost everything short of War guilt. Chairman Jackson Reynolds of Manhattan's First National ("The Baker Bank"), an articulate banker, cracked: "A newspaper states that the author of the report is Maudlin. It seems to me that the report also is accurately characterized as maudlin...
...George Edward Thomas Eyston has a conveyance. It is 36 ft. long, weighs 14,000 lb., has six wheels (two pairs forward tandem, two double rear wheels), boasts a tail fin sporting the Union Jack, is called Thunderbolt and is described by courtesy as an automobile. Last week he took this gadget out on Utah's Bonneville salt flats, warmed up its 24-cylinder, 4,000-h.p. Rolls-Royce twin engines, and made a try at the 301 m.p.h. land speed record established by Sir Malcolm Campbell two years...
...Macomb, Ill., a freshman at Western Illinois State Teachers College gave the "hot foot"* to sleeping Red Henderson, No. 1 place-kicker on the college football team. Place-kicker Henderson awoke abruptly, took to crutches, was forced to forego place-kicking for several weeks because of a badly blistered foot...