Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city magistrate who likes to tilt at educational windmills-and sometimes bowls them over. In 1940 he helped unseat Bertrand Russell from a teaching chair at the College of the City of New York on the grounds that Russell's writings were "lecherous, salacious . . . lustful." Last week Goldstein took off on another joust: unless two books which he considered "a menace" were banned from classrooms and public-school libraries within five days, he threatened to sue the Board of Education. The two books were Oliver Twist (the British film version of which has been withheld from U.S. movie theaters...
...women's indoor championships, California's bouncy 25-year-old Gertrude ("Gussie") Moran took the court for the finals against fellow Californian Nancy Chaffee. Gussie was out to prove that her strong semifinals play against National Champion Margaret Osborne du Pont at Forest Hills last September was no fluke. She did; hitting a powerful ball, she made it a 35-minute match...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Albert William Stevens, 63, holder of the world's altitude record for manned balloons; after long illness; in Redwood City, Calif. A top-notch aerial photographer, Colonel Stevens took the first photograph showing laterally the earth's curvature (1930) and the first pictures showing the moon's shadow on the earth during a total eclipse (1932), went to 72,395 feet in a balloon on Nov. 11, 1935 (with Captain Orvil Anderson) to set a substratosphere record...
...last great shortage-steel-showed unexpected signs of coming to an end. Steel plants piled up their tenth consecutive week of overcapacity production; there was a drop in orders for such essential products as freight cars. Last week the Department of Commerce took official note of the increased supply. It announced that in June it would reduce the amount of steel allocated for essential uses, thus making another 95,000 tons a month available to everyone...
...wanted to keep the right to classify Japan's merchant fleet, while the A.B.S. claimed it by right of conquest. This week, in what looked like an attempt to freeze out the U.S. firm completely, Lloyd's merged with the British Corporation Register. Thus Lloyd's took over classification of virtually all ships that fly the British flag, and a good percentage of ships of other nations...