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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third place with 242 1/2 points, is Eliot, whose football team finished in a tie for second. The Elephants also took third in touch football, fourth in track, and fifth in cross country...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

...Spoon River Anthology Poet Masters took an on-the-level look into a country graveyard, recorded what he saw with somewhat embittered candor, somewhat graveled acquiescence. In The New World, with a more opinionated candor and a more griped acquiescence he looks at U. S. history not on its level but reverentially from below and disgustedly from above, presents accordingly a vertically wall-eyed view of it. But his straightforward earnestness is as honest as his previous straightforward sight, and all U. S. readers will find themselves rising to their feet at Poet Masters' benediction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Man Spoon River | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...loss was attributed immediately to the appearance of the bulldog, but Ducky Pond, Yale's football coach, took him over and except for one trip away, has been the defender of Ducky's back-yard ever since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eli Eleven Falls to Overcome "Blues" Suffered at "Handsome Dan's" Death | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...interested in skiing will meet in Lowell House common room at 7:30 o'clock this evening. Movies of the 1936 championship races, in which two Harvard graduates, Alexander H. Bright '19, and Robert Livermore '32 took part will be shown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers To Meet | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...trouncing from Yale on the gridiron. Football here was at a low ebb, both with regard to achievement and morale. Then, if never before, voices from all sides insisted that with the new commercialization in college competition Harvard could not win unless some modification of the "student first" rule took effect. Perhaps not proselytism in all the materialism of the term, but some arrangement to make it easier for stars to come here. On November 26 the Crimson joined others in expressing this view...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HONOR AND PRAISE | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

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