Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...child in New Haven this was akin to waving a flag. At a desperate moment for the Union in the Civil War--July, 1864,--Yale, instead of enlisting, rowed Harvard a furious race at Worcester before a large and excited throng. Like-wise, as Harvard took up the new games appearing in the Victorian period, Yale was out of envy forced to follow, and each time unsuccessfully. In their first baseball game, 1868, Harvard beat Yale 25-17. In 1875 one hundred and fifty students saw the Crimson defeat the Blue in their first football match...
Once-beaten Lowell, with a squad of 17 players, will meet sixth-place Pierson minus the services of star back Dick Lewis, but the Bellboys appear to hold the edge over their Blue opponents. The Slaves, however, took their last four games to provide a whirlwind finish to their season...
...Roskilde, near Copenhagen, the Danish Army planned to black out the town for three nights during antiaircraft maneuvers. Businessmen grumbled. Pacifists took direct action, bought up all the fireworks in town, planned to set them off and march in torchlight parades to "lighten the dark nights...
...Brighton, Mass., Joseph V. Harkins took home 15 $100 bills, receipts from his jewelry store. He slipped the money in a telephone book to hide it. Few days later a telephone employe delivered a new telephone book, took away the old. When he discovered his loss, harried Mr. Harkins set to work with his family looking through 100,000 discarded telephone books. Five days later they found the money in the 75,000th...
...writing a before-the-fray article a certain Boston correspondent mentioned the fact that the Harvard-Virginia foot-ball game would be the same old "Grant took Richmond" story. The orange-clad Cavaliers resented this sort of hospitality, and the result was that the Varsity football team went through the roughest, toughest battle seen on Soldiers Field this year, winning...