Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvardites, Marshall MacIsaac and Stephen Madey, placed in the vault, the former tying for second, and the latter ending in a seven-way tie for third. In the jump Bob Partlow took fourth, as Dartmouth's Don Blount upset Princeton's Anson Perina with a tremendous leap of 24 feet, 6 3-4 inches...
George Downing, who took third in the discus, had a bad day in the shot-put, failing to get beyond the 47 foot, nine inch mark. He took fifth behind his teammate, Howie Mendel...
...fact that only eleven men took the examination was the chief cause of the changes, to be announced definitely next week. Six other men who passed the examination with honorable mention will be presented with copies of books in the field of American history...
Reason for the small number was given as the fact that it was the second, or intermediate, in a series of increasing difficulty. All of the eleven men had taken the first examination at some time, and a great many of the rest of those who took the primary test dropped out before the prospect of another test and more outside reading...
Graves was well down in the qualifying lists, with a 78, but he literally took the stiff Oakley course apart Saturday. Captain Jack Barr was his nearest pursuer, and a distant one at that with a 74-76--150. The nine stroke winning margin which Graves had even surpassed the record of present national amateur champion Willie Turnesa, who reigned over the Eastern Intercollegiate golfers for three years...