Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This puerile attitude took a more sinister form in the forged letters which falsely accused certain Freshmen of having social diseases. This prank has been tried before in other colleges, and has on occasion resulted in suicide when the recipients were more than usually sensitive. Here it had only the effect of further alienating Freshmen from the idea of cooperation...
Contribution book holders made their annual rush for Yale game seats on the H.A.A. ticket office early yesterday morning. The first arrival was Freshman Robert Misch, who took his stand at the doors just after 8 o'clock...
...smash with the slow period of gestation which the Securities & Exchange Commission requires before permitting new stock issues threw the conversion plan askew. When the offering was finally made, Pure Oil common had fallen to $17 per share. As a result stockholders who had first rights to the stock took only 8,040 shares. The underwriters then took over the balance, impounded the stock to wait for a better market. Before this move was announced, however, a number of speculators sold the stock short, planning to even up when the balance of the stock was issued. Now that the stock...
...husky, sharp-witted Vigo fisherman Gonzalo, as to most other Spaniards, Magellan's reputation was ugly. When the rumor got out that his secretive expedition would carry only Portuguese seamen, Magellan tried to stop the angry clamor with bullets, finally took long three Spanish captains. Chosen for their politics rather than their seamanship, they gave him much less opposition than the Basque ship's master, Sebastian del Cano (who with 34 survivors with the only officer to get back to Spain) and del Cano's young protege Gonzalo. If these two, says Author Ford, had been listened...
...Harvard took the lead at the beginning against a heavily favored Spring field eleven, but early in the second period Munro, of Springfield, took a corner kick on his head and popped it into the net. Thereafter Springfield held the edge in the game, scoring a second goal in the fourth period...