Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the new Air Minister, aviation's fighting arm, as well as Italian commercial aviation, took giant strides. In mass formation flights, personalty led by the Air Minister, Italy began to excel more spectacularly each year. The name of Italo Balbo made headlines everywhere, and Dictator Mussolini figured it was about time to give him a taste of what he had given the three Heroes de Bernardi, Ferrarino and de Pinedo...
...years ago Heloise Martin, an 18-year-old sophomore majoring in psychology at co-educational Drake University of Des Moines, Iowa, took stock of her unusual physical advantages and decided in favor of a theatrical career in New York. She persuaded her father, a retired Naval lieutenant named Ora who was also tired of Des Moines, to accompany her. Brunette and shapely, Heloise got a job as a dancer on Captain Kay Parsons' Show Boat, making nightly excursions on the Hudson River. Within two weeks she left Captain Parsons to join the chorus of Rudy Vallee's Revels...
...must gratify every Russian Orthodox, but it infinitely pains every Old Bolshevik. Since J. Stalin, although he was a theological student at the Orthodox Seminary in Tiflis during his youth, has not yet actually come out for religion, having merely buried his wife in consecrated grounds, Izvestia last week took the chance 'of printing an editorial which screamed warning that Russian priests are "taking advantage of the new Constitution" to stage a religious revival and will attempt to run priests as candidates in the next Soviet election...
Rinban Masuyama is currently busy with plans for a $60,000 temple for his San Francisco flock, to contain in its cornerstone a pinch of Buddha's ancient ashes and 50,000 lotus petals. Turning temporarily from his plans, the little Japanese took the gold Buddha down to Fresno, about halfway between San Francisco and Los Angeles. There Rinban Masuyama gave the statue to a Fresno priest named Enryo Shigefuji, and spent the weekend elevating Fresno's two-story, pagoda-roofed Temple to the status of San Francisco's that of Betsu-in or chief...
...statue was enthroned. That evening, with more chanting and with the congregation praying with 108-beaded Ojuzus, or prayer-strings, the Temple was made a Betsu-in and bespectacled Priest Shigefuji became a Rinban of equal rank with Rinban Masuyama. Next morning a Hana-matsuri, or flower festival, took place in honor of Buddha's 2,50311! birthday (April 8), with the two Rinbans pouring sweet water on the gold statue in commemoration of the legend that sweet rain fell when Buddha was born. Finally, at Fresno High School athletic field, members of Young Men's Buddhist Associations...