Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that trip Beebe had a helper. Harvardman Otis Barton, who designed and built the Bathysphere, took notes and pictures while Beebe was reporting to the surface over special telephone equipment. Last week after an interim career making movies in Panama, the Bahamas and Australia, plus combat photography in the Philippines (as a Navy lieutenant), Barton went at it again on his own. Off the California coast, 35 miles southwest of Santa Barbara, he went down alone in his Benthoscope.* and broke the Beebe-Barton record with a descent to 4,500 feet, the deepest that any living man has ever...
Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, who has long gazed upward with Red stars in his eyes,* took a searching look about him at the state of science in a world of ideological struggle and bounced off the party line...
Looking at this good news, some overeager optimists crowed that the recession had reached bottom and that things were already on the upgrade. Most businessmen, eying the continued slump in department-store sales, took a "show me" attitude. They thought it would be well into the fall before anyone would know for sure whether the pickup was only a seasonal summer rise, or the start of a general upsurge...
...York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram also took a cautious view. He saw "encouraging signs" of an uptrend, but he also called at the White House to tell President Truman how production and new investment could be stimulated by tax cuts. Among his recommendations...
...June 1913, on the tenth anniversary of his wedding, Gentleman-Farmer Sidney Tate lunched on Irish stew at his club and took stock of his marriage. He was a mild-mannered New York socialite who had come to Fort Penn, Pa. to marry rich, handsome, socially top-flight Grace Caldwell and had settled down to a provincial life of quiet opulence. His survey satisfied...