Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kirkland booters ran up four wins against one loss and two ties to take third place. Jim Dwinell turned in an outstanding performance during the season as net-tender...
Other officers, announced during the half of the Yale game to take office immediately, are: Assistant Managers, W. Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Mo., Geoffrey B.S. Cavanagh '62, of Dunster House and Gloucester, Joseph F. McLean '62, of Dudley House and Dorchester, and John M. Flader '62, of Leverett House and Kohler...
...Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse...
Japan's famed culture-pearl industry produces pearls of similar quality, but the oysters suited to Japan's waters rarely develop a pearl bigger than two-fifths of an inch in diameter, and take between five and seven years in the process. By contrast, Australia's giant "silver lips" oyster shells are as big as dinner plates, can produce pearls twice as big as Japanese pearls in less than two years. The quality is so high that experts cannot tell Kuri Bay's from the best natural pearls without...
With the project separated into 44 main components and thousands of subparts, the consultants got the estimates of scientists and technicians on how long each step should take, fed the predictions into a computer, got back success-probability curves. If the machine said a certain component had only a 10% chance of being ready on time, the Navy knew it had to put more money and men behind it or find a different way to do the job. In such cases the Navy could consult the computer to find out which of a score or more shortcuts around the obstacle...