Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME knows the words. Let Reader Brodsky remember: the incident took place at Harvard...
...spectators in the resplendent marble-pillared courtroom of the Supreme Court in Washington, D. C. rose to their feet. At the same instant, the nine Justices who had been awaiting the cue for their entrance, filed through three apertures in the white curtains at the end of the room, took their places behind the 30-ft. mahogany bench with celerity belying their years (51 to 81). Almost before the crowd had seated itself a summary of the day's first decision was being read...
...know-alls and listen only to the appeals of practicality and amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
Washington, with its Olympic crew, Rose Bowl football squad, basketball, swimming, and ski teams took first honors in the selection...
Although it took no racing start, Patrick Henry's boat was able to keep in the running, trailing Wilson's 150-pound shell at the finish line by a length and a half. The other shells finished closely behind only a few yards apart...