Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stead in 1933 when he mixed into reform politics in New York City, helped elect Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. As reward he was given the job of First Deputy Police Commissioner in charge of straightening out New York's traffic snarl, reducing accidents. With characteristic aggressiveness, Deputy Commissioner Fowler took to cruising over the city in blimps and autogiros to spot traffic jams, started safety enforcement contests between precincts, instituted numerous strict regulations for motor vehicles. Last week the worth of his work was recognized by the National Safety Council which gave New York its 1936 grand prize...
...structural parts of the cockpit. Grim-faced at his narrow escape from tragedy, the pilot told his employers about it. They at once passed the word to other lines using DC-3's. United Air Lines, whose February crash into San Francisco Bay was still a mystery, quickly took another look at the wreckage in which seasoned Pilot Alexander Raymond ("Tommy") Thompson, Co-Pilot Joe De Cesaro and nine other persons perished (TIME, Feb. 22). They looked in the cockpit and there lay the simple evidence: Co-Pilot De Cesaro's microphone jammed in the V-shaped well...
...history of medical publishing was attributable to the fact that in the history of medicine there had never before appeared so thoroughgoing a study of the human lung. Dr. Miller's 20g-page monograph-including an affectionate dedication to his wife who was once his student-took its place overnight beside such classics as William Harvey's Motion of the Heart & Blood, Rudolf Virchow's Cellular Pathology. Some well and lesser known facts covered by The Lung...
...Sears, 47, onetime professor of prosthetic dentistry in New York University, took his stance between the rami of a huge artificial jawbone. The over-size was necessary to illustrate his points clearly. These were...
...make it necessary for Australia to bat again. England's best batter, W. H. Hammond, could make no more than 56 runs before he was caught out by Bradman. Next morning with two wickets left to fall, Australia's able slow bowler, L. O. B. Fleetwood-Smith, took them both before England could add to its overnight score of 165. Australia had then won the match, by an innings and a tidy 200 runs, retained The Ashes by a great recovery, three matches...