Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mounted Policeman Patrick Conroy was tired when he finished his work in Manhattan and went home to Brooklyn one night last week, but as usual he took his German shepherd, Paddy, out for a walk while his wife prepared their late supper. Mrs. Conroy was tired, too. When her husband got back with the dog they passed a few sharp words. Suddenly Paddy, who had been trained to protect his mistress, began to growl at his master. Policeman Conroy drew his revolver, waved it admonishingly. The big police dog did what his master had taught him always to do when...
...Ohio State, whose crack History of Canada is standard even in Canadian universities. The acting dean of men, Alumnus Donald Melbourne Love, then became Secretary of the College, succeeding retiring George M. Jones. From Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis. ), which recently lost its President Henry Merritt Wriston to Brown, Oberlin took Dean of Women Marguerite Woodworth, to replace ex-Dean of Women Mildred Helen McAfee who left Oberlin last year to become President of Wellesley (TIME, May 25). One outcome of this intercollegiate shuffling is that Dean Woodworth, a blonde, bustling administrator of 41, will rule over her onetime superior...
...Annapolis in 1912, out of the Navy in 1916. Re-enlisting during the War, he was put in charge of U. S. air forces sent to Canada to patrol the east coast against submarines. Out in civil life again in 1926, he put martial affairs behind him for good, took up exploring. It was while he was self-marooned in a hut at Advance Base, 123-mi. south of Little America three years ago with his now famed defective oil stove, that Sailor Byrd, deathly ill from monoxide poisoning, turned his thoughts full force to peace. Having written his will...
When he saw it was me he stepped back." The girl, shown by the autopsy to have been drinking heavily, left her escort at her door, entered her apartment, took off her coat and dress in the bathroom, washed out her silk stockings and hung them over the edge of the tub to dry, cold-creamed her face and put her hair up in curlers...
...bought her on the spot, renamed her the Joseph Conrad, prepared to sail her around the world, to "keep a form of art alive upon an earth which had grown, it thought, beyond the need of it." Applicants for the cadet part of his crew were plentiful but it took weeks to pick cadets who were not too obviously neurotic misfits. Of women applicants he could have had enough to pack the Joseph Conrad in a day. On Oct. 22, 1934, carrying a crew of eight nationalities, looking like the ghost of Bligh's Bounty, the 212-ton, three...