Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister Nash, from the beginning of his London stay, showed he had uncommonly winning ways even with hard-boiled bankers. He took time off to explain his social and economic theories not only in the London Daily Herald, the Labor Party newsorgan where he could expect a sympathetic audience, but also in the Financial News, a City newspaper which has often criticized his policies...
...owner-breeder $229,000 ($137,500 on U. S. tracks and $91,500 abroad), world's-record winnings that year, outstripping the winnings of the fabulous stables of Lord Astor, the Earl of Derby and the Aga Khan (in that order). And in the following year, Woodward-owned horses took first place in four of the nine English stakes in which they started and earned more money ($104,365) than any U. S. stable had ever won in England in one year. Last week on the eve of the opening of Saratoga, the Belair Stud, with famed Johnstown and Fighting...
Francis of Assisi, simplest and kindliest of saints, lived in an age when Christendom sent army after army to wrest the Holy Land from the infidel. Burning to convert, rather than slaughter, the paynim, St. Francis took Palestine as a province of his order, before he or his followers ever laid eyes on it. When he did arrive there in 1219, the little saint settled Franciscans in some of the Holy Land's holy places. In 1333, by treaty with the Sultan, and with papal approval, Franciscans were awarded permanent "Custody of the Holy Land"-i.e., care...
...Cook & Son's sniffy "Princes' Department" to assign him its No. 1 courier, big, beefy, 60-year-old Frederick Norbert Wagner. Last June the Maharaja, his entourage of eight, and 58 pieces of luggage arrived in Marseille, France. There, on his toes as usual, Courier Wagner firmly took command...
...Francisco for the convention of the American Newspaper Guild, of which he is president, Columnist Heywood Broun last week took a sideswipe at the employer who is soon to unemploy him. Said...