Word: take
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon, Hodder said that he planned to start practice about November 14, although the ice-inclined footballers will not be able to report until about the first of December. The first Varsity game is scheduled is with Boston University on December 20. During the Christmas recess Hodder hopes to take the team to Lake Placid for three games with Princeton...
...paper once more. It made him think of the distant days when he first made the voyage through Mem Hall--learning how to sign his name on the way, signing up for all the periodicals. He remembered his initial trip across the Square, how he had wanted to take a taxi back to the Yard; he recalled the sign he'd put on his door warning solicitors of his full contentment. He signed as he thought of the first time he had heard the sound three trolley cars make when on their way to bed together; of the last vestiges...
Sandwiched between the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad properties and Alleghany Corp., which normally controls them, is a useless intermediary holding company, Chesapeake Corp. (originally the top holding company until the Van Sweringens added Alleghany in order to float more securities). Last week, at last, came the first move to take the cheese out of this stale Van Sweringen sandwich. Chesapeake Corp.'s directors authorized using $2,000,000 of its $7,349,134 earned surplus to cover such claims or liabilities as may arise when the company is dissolved. Concurrently they declared what may be the last regular Chesapeake Corp...
...birthday, bewhiskered old Poultney Bigelow, friend of the former Kaiser and inveterate iconoclast who is strong for war, dictatorship, beards, boating and hickory wagons for hauling wood and geese, gave out a written "interview," in which he asked all the questions and answered them himself. Some answers: "Stop thinking-take a holiday. . . . To go naked is wholesome, especially for nervous women...
...call the two satellites of Jupiter he discovered fortnight ago, Astronomer Seth Barnes Nicholson replied: "It seems sure that both the new satellites go around Jupiter in reverse, so my daughter, Jean, insists one of them must be named Corrigan. . . . We'll see how my astronomical associates take to Jean's idea...