Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kirkland House not only won the football game yesterday but also took honors with its band...
Sparks Sorlien took the 160-yard dash in 17 seconds fiat. Sorlien is a Varsity sprinter and broad-jumper. Freshman Robert Russell, a middle distance man, was second to Sorlien, and R. H. Abernathy, Jr. '41 was third. The 80-yard dash was won by F. G. Neal in 8.4 seconds. Partlow and Sorlien were second and third...
Before the War he had risen from dispatcher through the grades of railroading to general superintendent at Knoxville. When the Government took over the railroads in 1917 he took a chance, threw in his lot with the company, rather than the Railroad Administration, was made assistant to the president, assigned the duty of checking how the Government was using and abusing the road. He guessed right, for when the roads went back to private ownership in 1920, he was sent to St. Louis as vice president of Southern's subsidiary, Mobile & Ohio. Later at a Government hearing...
...took you to be one of my men," says Joseph...
Serving modestly on the general staff headed by her husband, Poet-Critic Allen Tate (see p. 81), Kentucky-born Caroline Gordon belongs to that well-educated guerrilla band of Southern regionalists who about a decade ago took up where the Confederate Army left off in its fight against the Yankee cultural and economic invasion. Chief sallies have consisted of nostalgic biographies, fiction and poetry celebrating the feudal charm of the Old South, collective manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between...