Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ralph Hymans emerged as the winning pitcher after taking over from Ira Godin in the first of the eighth and striking out five of the six men he faced to protect the Crimson's ill-gotten lead...
Twenty-two out of the twenty-four times Harvard has gotten Dartmouth alone on a cinder track the Indians have yelled uncle. Reports from the north this year, though, have it that the Big Green team which will go against the Varsity today at 1:30 o'clock in the Stadium doesn't know what the word uncle means...
With Rickenbacker out of the starting lineup, much of the afternoon's responsibility will rest on the shoulders of Ozzie Keiver, a golfer who has lately been shooting some excellent golf. Medalist in both of the last two matches, Keiver has gotten off 18-hole totals of both...
...bowed elegantly to his audience, and strode from the stage. The orchestra and audience remained in their seats, but Serge Koussevitzky did not return. In his place, amid a sudden hush, gold-spectacled Henry Cabot, president of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, slowly mounted the stage. The word had already gotten out that Harry Cabot had a very special announcement to make, and most of the audience had a good idea of what...
...World War II was enacted, it would result in "mass civil disobedience" on the part of U.S. Negroes. Said he: "Negroes have reached the limit of their endurance when it comes to going into another Jim Crow Army to fight another war for democracy-a democracy they have never gotten." Grant Reynolds, chairman of the Committee against Jim Crow in Military Service and Training, soberly agreed...