Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...William du Font's Fairy Hill, a 14-to-1 outsider; the rich Santa Anita Derby for three-year-olds; at Arcadia, Calif.'s Santa Anita Park. Winner's take was $45,425. Mrs. Ethel Mars's Military took second & $10,000; Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney's Ptolemy took third...
...performance ever seen on the Racquets Club's court, Grant polished off Warren Ingersoll of Philadelphia, one of the country's five ablest, in 19 minutes: 15-5, 15-2, 15-4. In the final, two days later, his opponent was again Champion Edwards. This time it took Grant just half an hour to win match & title...
...explanation of the remarkable endurance displayed by German and Japanese runners in the 1936 Olympic Games (TIME, Aug. 17) was offered last week. Some observers at the Games guessed that the contestants took cocaine. Better informed observers guessed at benzedrine, a non-narcotic stimulant (TIME, Sept. 14) which reputable Dr. Morris Henry Nathanson of Los Angeles last fortnight, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, suggested would be an excellent aid to crammers, sprinters and others who need a sudden burst of energy. Last week's news from Berlin showed that the Olympic phenomena, at least...
...place called Cainsmarsh, just the kind of quiet district he wanted. Before he had been there very long, the place began to get on his nerves. He noticed that everyone seemed to be afraid: no one would go out after dark, everyone distrusted and feared his neighbor, took drugs on the sly to keep going. Soon Finchatton began to lose his nerve. When he found a dog beaten to death by the side of the road, when his friend the vicar made a murderous attack on his own wife because he thought she was trying to poison him, Finchatton made...
...Mayo and Dublin had been governess-guarded. But when the guns began to pop in Dublin's Easter Week rising, O Malley's heart told him that he was Irish too. He sneaked out of the house after dark, joined a pal who had a rifle, took turns firing at British rifle flashes. Soon he had joined the Irish Republican Army as a volunteer, left home for good. His governessy upbringing rubbed off fast. He was made an officer, sent out to organize country districts, given such perilous jobs as disguising himself as a British officer...