Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...help talking. "I often tell a friend or two to keep their ears open at a closed-door meeting," says Pearson. During the war, the Merry-Go-Round spilled the news that F.D.R. had irritably snubbed General de Gaulle. "One of the Congressmen who heard it took a few notes," Pearson recalls...
...Lear. Copey had one great rival in the English department-George Lyman Kittredge. He was a stormy lecturer, now prancing across his dais like a mad Lear, now hurling his pointer across the room as if it were a spear. When someone asked him how long it took him to prepare a lecture, he answered, "Just a lifetime-can't you see that?" If a student fearfully quoted the dictionary pronunciation of a word to him, Kitty would whip out an old envelope to jot it down. "That's wrong," he would murmur, "I'll see that...
...melancholy college student took his troubles to a quack "psychologist." The quack told him to enroll in a course in public speaking and tell his troubles to the class. The student tried it, broke down, later committed suicide...
...elder statesman of U.S. industry last week took a look into 1949-and blinked his eyes at the rosy glow. The reason for the glow, thought General Motors' Afired P. Sloan Jr., was the continued high rate of spending for plant expansion and new construction, which now accounts for about 6% of the gross national product. Said he: "As long as that [expansion] continues ... I am sure that the impact on consumer goods and durable goods will give us a high level of national income...
...took one year to plan, three years to write, and two more to edit this ambitious literary history of the U.S. The first two volumes consist of essays by 55 scholars; the third is a valuable bibliography. Here, presumably, is everything most readers could possibly want to know about American writing...