Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thomas (tea) Lipton, who spent $4,000,000 on five unsuccessful tries to "lift the Mug." Skipper Sopwith challenged for the Cup for the first time in 1934. Beaten after a disputed finish in the fourth race, he sailed home in a rage, announced he would never challenge again, took almost two years to change his mind. Famed principally as an airplane manufacturer, whose first appearance on the U. S. scene was when he gave exhibition flights over Long Island in one of his own planes in 1911, Skipper Sopwith applied his technique as an aeronaut to sailing when yachts...
...important diplomatic conversations. Only in Italian newsorgans did the story make no splash. Obedient to Mussolini's order to boycott Britain's party (TIME, May 17), this was the full text of Italy's official Stefani News Agency report: "The Coronation of King George VI took place this morning...
...waiting messenger, sped in cars to the Central News Agency, headquarters for all services, to be flashed over the world by radio. In New York, the Abbey pictures were ready for reproduction within two hours, but were not very clear. Next evening Aviators Dick Merrill & Jack Lambie took off from Southport, Lancashire (see p. 23) with sets of Coronation prints, 46 in each. Among those waiting for them were TIME and LIFE who took one set with exclusive magazine rights (see p. 17). The New York Times and the Hearstpapers took other sets...
...them, supersensitive, was hung high in the vaulted roof over the chancel-to catch every syllable of the historic service. Radio officials later estimated that 83% of the world's potential radio audience listened in at all hours. In the U. S. alone, some 300 stations took up the waves from London for the longest transatlantic broadcast ever (7 hr.) and "the longest continuous program in radio history...
White-maned Walter Damrosch rehearsed and conducted his opera with great vigor, took curtain calls along with Poet Guiterman. In a cast that sang as freshly as any this season, particular credit went to Helen Traubel of St. Louis for a powerful-voiced Mary. Arthur Carron sang Philip expressively, looked so little the romantic part that forthright Critic Danton Walker of the Daily News felt his sentence of banishment should have been a bread-&-water diet...