Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Night & Day. Roberts took the Tarkington advice and has been living and writing by it ever since. In three months he traveled 3,000 miles, for the Satevepost, wrote four articles, went through 73 historical source books and wrote the first 60,000 words of his first novel "on trains, in railway stations, in hotel rooms, and occasionally worked all night." With a contract from Publisher Russell Doubleday in his pocket, he went to Italy to write, hung a schedule on the wall beside his bed: "Write a chapter every 4 days; write 1⅓⅓pages (1,500 words...
...book with envious cracks about other people's bestsellers and jabs at his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana. Once, peeved because he never got the Pulitzer Prize, he teed off on the selection committee in an ill-tempered article for the Satevepost, took solace from his No. 1 position in a poll of reviewers who thought Northwest Passage deserved the prize in 1938. He decided never again to let a book of his be submitted for the award...
...field of 30 hopefuls started, and most were clocked in at the finish line, but one fellow took a wrong turn and was last seen heading in the direction of Natick. As only one machine was entered in the balloon-tire class, the lucky-- and unidentified--rider really hit the jackpot. He won a generator set, saddle bag, and carrier, the first three prizes in his group...
...Godin bore down after the first inning, struck out 12 Bruin batters, and registered Harvard's second straight League success. The visitors took a 1 to 0 lead in the first inning on two walks, as outfield fly, and a double steal...
...trackmen took all places in the quarter, half, and mile, won the mile relay, took first and second in the 100 and 220 yard dashes and the high hurdles, and first and third in the low hurdles...