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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jaakko Mikkola is used to having good track teams. Last year, and for years immemorial before that, his teams and those of Eddie Farrell took the honors. But last season, after one of the best balanced teams in Harvard history, graduation took more than its usual toll, and the result has been that the structure of the team is being built up from the bottom; and another result is that for the first time in the history of the meet the track team will walk onto the Garden Boards Saturday night not only not the favorite to successfully defend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/24/1937 | See Source »

...Hinckley took his loss with good nature. "Well, that station's off the air," he said. "You can send my CRIMSON over to Brookline tomorrow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hollis Blaze Extinguished Without Extensive Damage JFP>1 | 2/23/1937 | See Source »

Navigating was "The Dook," wiry, chaste, non-practicing bridge engineer, whose sober tinkering with the sextant gave their position anywhere from mid-ocean to mid-Australia. Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flynn's Yarn | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich Jew, and settled down to be the gracious lady nature had intended her to be. Grace, left at home in Silver Bow, caught Louise's old beau on the rebound, married him and became the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: 1904 | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...Great Barrier Reef, they put in one day at a small island inhabited by the Wilson family, who lived on shell fishing. Oldest Daughter Lucy was breathlessly beautiful, listened wide-eyed and adoring to Author Flynn's descriptions of the magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while they trussed her up, took her ashore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flynn's Yarn | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

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