Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Graduation took three key men Brahman Gibbs '36, Captain Richard Maguire '36, and Harraut J. Adsignian '36 from last year's outfit, which tied Dartmouth for the League championship...
...spite of the Tiger's reputed new defensive strength, the game was less than nine minutes old before Austie Harding took one of George Ford's passes from behind the cage and rammed it home before Goalie Baker had time to get set for the shot. Just a few minutes later Johnny Mechem put the Crimson further ahead when he converted a pass from George Roberts...
...Mette Gad, a Danish girl on a visit to Paris, her strapping body, naturalness and intelligence appealed to him. They married, settled down to raise a family. Paul was making good money, Mette was social and a good spender. Shortly before the birth of their first child, Paul took up drawing as a hobby. Gradually he became more & more interested in it, took to painting. But Mette never suspected how serious he was, even when he sent a picture to the Salon and got it accepted. His wife laughed about "Paul's painting mania" with her friends. When...
Gauguin went back to France, painted like a madman, had a bad time. At one point he took a job as a billposter. He made a first trip to the tropics, to Martinique, but it was a disappointment. Then Vincent van Gogh, a lone wolf like himself, invited him to come and work with him at Aries. Their queer partnership broke up when van Gogh went crazy and cut off his ear with a razor. Meanwhile Gauguin and Mette wrote to each other, in a fairly friendly fashion. He tried to explain to her why he was acting...
...disease was growing on him fast he would not go to the hospital, lived alone in a native hut, drank more & more. For siding with the natives against government officials he was tried, sentenced to three months' imprisonment. But before the sentence could be carried out, death took Gauguin...