Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitman's president. Young "Binks" Penrose went to Whitman, sang bass, played varsity tennis, majored in chemistry and Greek. Then, on his father's advice, the 20-year-old youngster sailed for A.U.B. and a three-year hitch as an instructor. Back in the U.S., Penrose took a Ph.D. at Columbia, taught at Whitman and Rockford Colleges, made a wartime jump to the OSS and Cairo as a Near East expert...
Interviewed last week in Budapest by a TIME correspondent, Haldane took temporary refuge in his lack of exact information. (The genetics controversy, which has become a cause célèbre in Soviet Russia, has not been fully reported in Budapest.) Until he could be sure, said Haldane, that Lysenko's current theories are unscientific and that opponents had been punished for disagreeing, he would make no decision. "I don't think a political body," he said, "should decide scientific, theories. I want evidence that those who disagreed were punished." He would not decide where he stood...
...Minor! C Minor!" When he got home again, in 1930, he found himself famous. As time went by he took to stuffing his pockets with costly cigars, developed a taste for conservative grey suits, manicures and perfume. In 1932 he was made director of musical education for Rio's schools...
...touch with the ghost of James R. Keene, the famed Wall Street plunger. Keene had tipped him off that the "insiders" rigged the market every day, using a code that in recent years had appeared in the Bringing Up Father comic strip. Said Goldsmith: "It took me an awfully long time to break the code, but once I did, it was simple to predict the market with 90 to 95% accuracy...
...illustrate, Goldsmith took a Maggie & Jiggs strip of last May. The first frame showed Jiggs with his right hand in his pocket. Explained Analyst Goldsmith: "A signal to buy."* Two rings of smoke were coming from Jiggs's cigar ("The market will go up in the second hour of trading"). In the second frame, Maggie is saying: "I don't see why you can't get your name in the paper, too" ("Buy International Paper"). In the last frame, Jiggs's cigar smoke is still rising, indicating a steady market at the close...