Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Collecting 218 names for her first petition took Mary Norton 17 days. Record for similar petitions was 100 names in a day. Last week, Mrs. Norton was so conscious of the difficulty of her task that she sent a wire to Indiana's Congresswoman Virginia E. Jenckes, asking her to make a special trip from home to sign her name. Mrs. Jenckes flew East but she arrived at the Capitol in time only to witness the celebration of an astounding victory...
Disappointed that it was too late for her signature to be added to the list, Mrs. Jenckes took the next plane for Indiana. Meanwhile, in a seething, shouting mob of Congressmen, Aunt Mary Norton accepted congratulations on setting a new House record (2 hr. 22 min.) for committee discharge petitions and on the No. 1 achievement of her political career...
Scoring a complete shutout against the M. I. T. Freshmen the Yardling racquetmen took all 18 sets to win 9 to 0 on Jarvis field yesterday afternoon...
...Very fine" were the words used by Colonel Collins speaking of the drill in which 202 students and officers took part. Blue stars on the sleeves of all uniforms are the insignia which stand for an excellent rating...
There was a knock on the door. The Vagabond sloshed his safety razor in the bowl, took a sideways squint at the inch-wide path through his frothy whiskers and traipsed down the hall. It was Dick and Phil, two friends from the Yard...