Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...when she went abroad, placed fifth in the world's championship. Last week at Chicago, chic, brown-haired, 25-year-old Skater Vinson. who also rides, swims, sculls and writes ably on, women's sports for the New York Times, won her title for the ninth time, took the pairs title for the fourth with her partner, George Edward Bellows Hill of Boston...
...might affect the child's looks. When Sisi's baby daughter was born, Sophie immediately snatched her away, kept her. "Give her the child?" said Sophie. "When she cannot even discipline herself? Never!" The same thing happened with the second baby, also a girl. Finally Franz Joseph took a hand, attempted to rescue Sisi's children for her. Sophie chalked up another score to settle...
...office. His hodge-podge empire, he discovered, was a seething mass of anachronisms, misgovernment, discontent. To get a better idea of how the land lay, see which fences needed mending most, he began making the rounds of his property. On some of these trips he took Sisi with him. In the Italian provinces, where Austrian misrule was worst, even the paid hands would not clap the royal owners. At the Scala in Milan, the audience had to be commanded to attend, under penalty of fines: the aristocrats sent their servants to fill the seats. Sisi's charm and beauty...
...last page, made him think of a river. And once a river made him think of the life of man. Then (1924) and there (the great dam at Aswan on the Nile) he decided to write a potamography -the life story of a river. The big job took him a long time, for the Nile covers a lot of ground, has been flowing a long time, has affected many races of men. Last week Potamographer Ludwig's book was ready at last. First readers found it appropriately like its subject: broken by cataracts, meandering, sometimes almost lost in swamps...
...worry. Too little water means famine; too much, catastrophe. Since Egypt has been under England's benevolent paw, the Nile has been studied, shackled as never before. British hydrographical research costs $500,000 a year; the great dam at Aswan, built to regulate the Nile's flow, took three years to build, had to be thrice heightened, cost...