Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between 75 and 100 entrants are expected. Bob Randall, who took four firsts against the Yale freshmen two years ago, may compete for Kirkland...
Other point-getters for the Crimson were John Herrick, who won the discus with a heave of 149 feet, 7 inches; Bob Haydock who tied for second in the high Jump; Bert Litman, who took second in the javelin; and George Downing who scored second in the shot put and fifth in the discus...
...rangy, long-faced Representative Fred Moore Vinson rose in the House to put the finishing touches on a job that has kept him sweating since last November, when he started work as chairman of a Ways & Means Subcommittee to draft the Revenue Bill of 1938. Well-informed Taxman Vinson took the floor without notes. The bill he proposed to defend against all comers was neither his committee's nor the much-amended Senate bill sponsored by Pat Harrison. It was a patched up compromise between the two, which the Senate had hustled through two days before without a record...
...most deplorable evidences of the surrender to the methods of propaganda is the apathy with which the country greeted Senator Minton's proposal to restrict the freedom of newspapers to print what they regard as news. Fortunately the rest of the Senate took the Minton bill as a mere publicity stunt. But the able successor to Justice Black as inquisitor-general for the New Deal has followed up his censorship bill with a request for funds with which to investigate the owners of three prominent papers in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, simply because they have refused to Knuckle under...
...took another splinter from the pile of odds and cuds and sat down again. There was no hurry. It would take them a quarter of an hour yet to get the cradle cleared. He was excited--yes, there was no denying that. Launching, like birth, is a supreme moment...