Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...host of 55,000 sinners, Russians who transgressed against their State and were sent to the purgatory of digging immense canals under the lash of Ogpu overseers, last week were redeemed by the mercy of Joseph Stalin. Making one of his rare public appearances the Dictator took an inconspicuous seat while the official pardon of the 55,000 was read out. How many more thousands died in the Soviet purgatory and how many are busy redeeming themselves in it still with picks and shovels, the State did not say. Most of Russia's 55,000 redeemed sinners sweated under...
Fifteen miles from Patna all the travelers were shocked into full consciousness, many of them for only a few seconds. With a thunder of shattered wood, a shriek of torn steel, the train and seven cars took a head dive over the embankment, settled in a chaotic mess. The first two cars were completely telescoped, buried beneath the two that followed. From the two rear cars, which had stayed miraculously on the rails, leaped frenzied Europeans to behold a scene described by one as "like any battlefield." Relief workers rushing to the spot dragged more than 100 dead and mangled...
Prince Konoye led a hot youth but was early marked for advancement by potent old Prince Saionji, now the 87-year-old Last of the Genro and chief adviser to the Throne. To the Versailles Peace Conference shrewd old Saionji took the then young Konoye, baptized him in diplomacy and statecraft. After revered Saionji returned to Japan he continued to groom the Prince with care, saw to it that Konoye at only 42 became President of the House of Peers, most of whose members are three decades older. It became a settled thing among Japanese insiders that...
...dirty buildings slowly swayed in his drowsy mind, his knees buckled and, panting like an asthmatic old dog, he fell in a heat stroke. Similar strokes downed hundreds throughout the nation during the last, hot fortnight. But old Dan Long's was unique. When attendants of Bellevue Hospital took his rectal temperature, routine procedure in cases of heat stroke, they found it to be 109.8° F., highest in that vast old hospital's records...
...dawn one morning last week. Pilot Gromov, Co-Pilot Andrey Yumashev and Navigator Sergei Danilin climbed aboard their big, red-winged monoplane at Moscow's Schelkovo Airport. They had six tons of fuel, enough for 8,000 miles of flying. After taxiing more than a mile, the plane took off through a thin fog. Near the North Pole they encountered thick fog, flew blind for a long stretch, but passed the Soviet polar base 13 min. ahead of schedule, making about 100 m.p.h. On the "down" side they picked up radio communication with Anchorage (Alaska), Seattle and San Francisco...