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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although Nils Eie of Oslo, Norway, took first in jumping with 36.76 points, Dartmouth captured team honors in that event to keep a clean slate. Because of the exceptionally fast surface on the runway, the jumpers took off from a rope stretched across the chute 50 feet below the platform, and jumps were consequently shorter than if the full length of the take-off had been utilized...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queen Brooks Rules Snowless Kingdom At Twenty-Eighth Dartmouth Carnival | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

Only one Crimson fencer, Cranston Jones in the foils, took all three of his matches. In the epee, Jerry Dodge won two matches and tied the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity, 1941 Fencers Beat Brown Away 16 1/2-10 1/2, 22-5 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...strong Exeter squad, starring Carter, sprinter, who has the 24.5 Exeter 50-yard record to his credit plus a 55 second 100, will make their meet with the Yardlings a see-saw affair similar to Wednesday's contest against Boston Boys' Club, which the Freshmen took...

Author: By Charles N. Poliak ii, | Title: NATATORS COMPETE AGAINST COLUMBIA SWIMMERS TONIGHT | 2/12/1938 | See Source »

...that point Boston had 28 points and Harvard had 31, with the relay, worth seven points to the winner, still to be swum. But Powers, Moore Stowell, and Bosworth, the strongest team Coach Pete Petersen could muster, took the event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Swimmers, Pressed to Last Event, Win Over Boston Boys' Club in Hardest Meet So Far | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

...Kraus continued his fine breaststroke career with a Freshman record-breaking 1:09.4 shattering the previous record of 1:10 which he set last December against Lynn. Although the Yardlings took all but two of the first places, their lack of seconds and thirds, especially in the 50 free-style, and in the backstroke, made Boston a continual threat to a Harvard victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardling Swimmers, Pressed to Last Event, Win Over Boston Boys' Club in Hardest Meet So Far | 2/10/1938 | See Source »

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