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Word: taken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bounced off the back board or dropped off the edge of the basket, but after a time Technology tightened up and took the lead 7 to 4. A rally on the part of the Crimson netted two goals and left the score 8 to 7 as time-out was taken. Harvard was still in the lead at the half with a 13 to 10 score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: QUINTET DEFEATS M. I. T. IN CLOSE LIVELY STRUGGLE | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

...system is a complex one. The actual nominating is done by members of a student council committee from the floor in mass meeting of the class. A preliminary vote is taken upon the nominees; the three winners are then submitted to an elimination count which decides the election. The advantage of the method is to reach all sections of the class. The situation in which many a voter finds all the nominees are strangers to him cannot arise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO'S WHO | 12/19/1929 | See Source »

Despite the fact that it is the initial game for Coach Stubbs' charges they are favored to come out on the long end of the score. B. U. has played three games already and has taken as many defeats. The first two of these setbacks came at the hands of two of New England's strongest hockey aggregations, the University Club and Yale, but the third was a 3 to 1 drubbing by M. I. T. The Terriers are admittedly weak at goal and this has been their handicap in all three games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON FAVORED IN HOCKEY OPENER WITH B. U. TONIGHT | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...Nesting of the Sea Turtle" is but one of the pictures the University Film Foundation is presenting to the public for the first time today at Brattle Hall. Cambridge, which was taken under the most unusual conditions. The Loggarhead turtle, which is the "heroine" of this picture belongs to a deep-sea species...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM FOUNDATION FINDS TURTLES HARD SUBJECTS | 12/17/1929 | See Source »

...title of Talking Reporter did not mean that Graham McNamee was going to shoulder a new assortment of emotional loads. He will not be present when the newsreels are taken. The 51 newspapers† film local news, send it to Universal Newsreel's Manhattan laboratory. There Talking Reporter McNamee will view it. As he watches he will make remarks, which will be recorded on discs synchronized with the film. National Broadcasting Co. will not lose its No. 1 event-describer. McNamee's hour-a-day with Universal Newsreel will be sandwiched in among his regular announcing engagements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Talking Reporter | 12/16/1929 | See Source »

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