Word: took
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After this barrage of shots B. U. settled down and kept her own net free from danger until near the close of the period. Then, with less than a minute left to play Cunningham took the puck single-handed through the entire Terrier defence and sent a sizzling shot past the goalie from the left side of the net just as the period ended...
...Engineers won the tap-off, but it was for Harvard, represented by T. I. Nido '30 to score the first basket. From the start to the half, the two teams shared the honors with even playing. Harvard continually took the ball halfway up the court and tried for a goal. M. I. T. showed considerable inaccuracy for some time as shot after shot 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...
...Vonckx '31 yesterday afternoon won the 35 pound weight in the tall University Handicap Meet. As in previous years, all the other events of this meet were held at the end of October while this was postponed for about a month. G. F. Bennett '33 took second place, while Murdock Finlayson '32 came in third...
...than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly. His reporting of the long-drawn 1924, Democratic National Convention in Manhattan established him as most popular U. S. announcer. Soon no football game, world series, horse race, prizefight, inauguration was complete without...
...curious business leaders of the New York area who had never had a ride in an airplane. At Valley Stream, L. I., hummed expectantly the Company's Ford trimotor. In squads it engulfed intrepid New York businessmen -rubbermen, pianomen, bankers, food-men, hatters, bakers, milkmen, silkmen- took them up, showed them over Manhattan, brought them down, five tons landing softly...