Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sponsored by the ski team, the films were prefaced by short speeches by the team's captain and manager, and by Alex Bright '19, who introduced skiing into Harvard. Bright declared it was about time Harvard took the collegiate ski title away from Dartmouth, and remarked that the chances looked favorable this year. Transportation plans were discussed...
...clock this morning, a neighbor of this glistening giant gave one sickening shudder and came crashing earthward among the terrified students of "Shakespeare complete" as they elbowed their way into the Hall. Pale, twitching faces gratefully expressed the blessings of the miracle of deliverance, and witnesses of the event took pains to sidle along the banister as far removed as possible from the wall of dripping doom. It seems a bit inconsistent of the University to rope off countless areas in the spring just to tear off a few shingles, and now when Nature's guillotines are threatening to eradicate...
...took refuge under section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act. Steered by Chairman Kenneth David Steere, who as a partner of Paine, Webber & Co. handled many a market operation for the Vans, it presently submitted a reorganization plan which, while suggesting a substantial write-down of the common stock, nonetheless left C. & O. with an estimated 19.1% of voting power. Last week ICC cut this to 12.4% and, as it had lately done with Chicago Great Western and Western Pacific, rammed home the point that rail-road reorganization, new style, means completely wiping out the equity of common stockholders...
Jesse Jones added with liberal belligerence: "You did like the first few years of the Roosevelt Administration. Why? Because he saved your banks-those that were alive when he took office. . . . I might tell you that of the 6,119 banks in which we put capital, as far as we in the RFC have been able to figure, less than 20 did not need the capital. Think that over...
...mackinawed men from the Hills of Hanover took it on the chin Saturday, 23-13, at the hands of the sunkist college of co-ed dreamdom. And it was no freak win. The weather was clear and the track fast. All-American Captain Bob MacLeod and his mates Bill Hutchinson and Colby Howe were due to romp. Stanford, however, held them to 77 yards by rushing and only seven of Hutch's 17 passes found receivers...