Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colledge home, told Cecilia what to eat, taught her not only skating but also French and German. For eleven months a year for the next eight years Cecilia Colledge followed the same routine every day-six hours of skating lessons supplemented by dancing lessons, exercises, massages. For recreation she took lessons in cooking and English literature. Dr. Colledge at first discouraged the plan to make his daughter a skating celebrity, later acquiesced but stanchly refused to allow Cecilia's younger brother Maule to concentrate on skating...
...when his turn came he, too, won the top U. S. bird dog championship, the National Field Trials on the Hobart Ames plantation at Grand Junction, Tenn. One autumn when he had grown old and too slow for quail, the little setter's master took him away from his familiar brush and stubble to the thick pines of Minnesota to hunt grouse. Out of his master's sight one grey afternoon, he was standing on point when a blinding blizzard struck suddenly out of the north, driving the master to cover. Wind, sleet and snow beat down...
Possessor of one of the greatest records in dog show history is a sleek, snow-white Borzoi (Russian wolfhound) named Vigow of Romanoff, owned by Louis J. Murr of Spring Valley, N. Y. In his first appearance, at the 1934 Washington show, Vigow took best in his breed's novice class, went straight up through best of breed and best in the hound group to be chosen best in show. Since then he has been entered in 56 shows, been judged best of breed 56 times, best hound 50 times, best in show 14 times. A cocker spaniel, Torohill...
Other new singers were less impressive. Vina Bovy sang carelessly, seldom felt any obligation to act (TIME, Jan. 18). When Gertrud Ruenger, originally a contralto at the Vienna Staatsoper, took the soprano role of Brünnhilde, she sounded shrill and lifeless. John Brownlee, a young Australian baritone, made an indifferent Rigoletto. But Kerstin Thorborg raised the recruits' average with a splendid Fricka...
...increase of nearly 20%. Result was the smallest balance in favor of the U. S. since the days of Grover Cleveland ($34,000,000 as against $236,000,000 in 1935). Furthermore, the U. S. paid out $60,000,000 more in freight and shipping charges than it took in, the net of remittances was against the U. S. by $138,000,000, and U. S. tourists spent $373,000,000 more abroad than was spent in the U. S. by foreign tourists. Though the balance of dividend and interest payments was a favorable $375,000,000 and miscellaneous transactions...