Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Corporal Henry Finch of Roslindale took the CRIMSON staff car through rows of sentries who kept vandals from the devastated areas to the sand banks where some of the Harvard men were on guard. "We are shifted all around," said Seargent Geoffrey W. Lewis '34, former tutor and assistant dean, "sometimes we're on a highway, sometimes in a cranberry...
...prosperous banker took a great deal of time to explain how he and his countrymen were prepared to get out and defend the country to the last tree and rock. "The women too," he added. "They'll go out there and shoot at the Germans. If anyone thinks they'll get through the Sudeten hills, they're very much mistaken...
Securities. War in 1914 took the world's markets by surprise. There was enormous liquidation on the New York Exchange, finally forcing it to close for four months after a slump in one week of some 11% in stocks. Last week, the Exchange cautiously declared that this time it would do its best to remain open. This would obviously be easier than in 1914- margins are 40% now against about 10% then and volume of sales has increased some eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads...
...Boston Bees edged the New York Giants twice, 3-2 and 4-3, at National League Field yesterday as "Elbie Fletcher" day was observed. In New York the rampaging Red Sox took over the Yankees 5-3 in ten innings and then tied the nightcap. Other scores, NATIONAL--Pittsburgh 5, Cincinnati 3; Chicago 7, St. Louis 2; Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia 1; Philadelphia 5, Brooklyn 1. AMERICAN: Detroit 7, Cleveland 5; St. Louis 7, Chicago 2; Philadelphia 6, Washington 5; Washington 5, Philadelphia...
Little has been said of the excellent athletic program carried on in the Camp. Soft ball was the predominant sport, volley ball was a close second, while the barnyard game of horse-shoes took the "spare" time of many enthosiasts. "It's a ringer" was heard many an afternoon between close of drill and retreat. The final game of the soft ball league, played on Visitors' Day, was a thriller, such as one reads about in the sports magaiznes...