Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week the Elis fell into the trap that was waiting for them on the Charles River when the Crimson eight took them by a third of a length in 7:05.4. Princeton trailed two lengths behind as they had done on Lake Carnegle in the Wright races...
With a 7 to 5 victory in the final play-off, the Matthews ten took the freshman Softball Championship yesterday. Although the Thayer Softles took an early 5 to 1 lead, Jim Monkman pulled the Champs even in the fifth frame. Bob McLaughlin came home on a fly by Dick Sprague to score the winning run. While Bryan Smith rounded the bases just to cinch the Matthews victory...
...gentlemen, Brokers Edward Allen Pierce and John Hanes, helped elect mild, supposedly liberal Charles R. Gay as Exchange president in place of Richard Whitney. But Gay presently swung to the right: when the market crashed last August he made a speech blaming it on SEC regulation. Paul Shields then took it upon himself to go see SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. Thenceforth, while Douglas attacked from Washington, Paul Shields and John Hanes worked from within. The Richard Whitney affair was the Trojan horse which delivered the Exchange into their hands. John Hanes then went blithely to Washington as a SECommissioner...
...took martial law in two States and the best efforts of Secretary Ickes and the NRA to get the price up again. When NRA went out, oilmen relied on proration: no well in the East Texas field was allowed to run off more than a fixed amount (now an average of 20 barrels a day), and an Interstate Oil Compact, promoted by Oklahoma's Governor Ernest Marland, spread production control to six States-Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico, Colorado, Illinois. Carefully the price was built back...
Fastest climbing musical instrument in popular favor, according to trade statistics, is the piano accordion. Last year piano accordion sales took second place only to piano sales, accounted for $19,000,000 worth of business. There are at least 400,000 piano accordion players in the U. S. Their instrument, a more complicated and efficient descendant of the old-fashioned concertina, is really a small piano keyboard grafted on to an accordion...