Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After a moment's hesitation, he attempted a flight for freedom to his room under cover of darkness. A Yard cop, however, spotted his pale form and cried halt. The barefaced freshman failed to stop, and the policeman, may several policemen, took off in hot pursuit...
...Senators sat up and took notice; Airman Rickenbacker made the businesslike kind of sense they wanted to hear. Next day, he followed up his free advice with a dramatic and not entirely disinterested proposal. He offered to take over his competitors-National, Delta, Capital, Chicago & Southern, and Colonial Airlines -and handle all their domestic air mail at Eastern's "non-subsidy" rate of 60/ to 65^ per ton mile (v. the five lines' average which he figured at $4.45 last year). *The difference, said Rick, would save the taxpayers $10 million a year...
...Girl Remains." Goethe explained what he meant by this when, to the horror of his admirers, he took Christiane Vulpius, a simple girl who earned her living by making artificial flowers, to bed & board with him. Almost illiterate ("She has not read a line of all my works," said Goethe), Christiane not only loved Goethe but delighted him by her absolute refusal to be anything but' what nature had intended her to be. She bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue...
...himself that is comparable to those of England's Shakespeare and Italy's Dante. An ardent sideline scientist (he discovered that the intermaxillary bone in apes was also present in a rudimentary form in man, and developed a new theory regarding the nature of colors), he took special delight in noting the similarities that related phenomena of the most diverse kinds. When his son, August, showed no particular interest in a literary life, Goethe was no more upset than he had been by the strange ways of mistress Christiane. "In the last analysis," he said, "all sane...
Change of Heart. In Knoxville, Term., Alice Emert Wells, married ten times before, returned marriage license No. 11 to he county clerk's office with an explanation: "I got cold feet." In Nashville, Deputy Clerk Jimmy O'Connell reported that a man turned in his marriage license, took the refund and bought a license to marry another woman...