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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...took just 18 seconds of the first period for Harvard to score its first goal. Captain Myles Huntington set the pattern for the rest of the game by beating Tufts goalie Miles Uhrig to a pass from defenseman Jack Carman in deep Harvard zone...

Author: By Douglas M. Fouquet, | Title: Hockey Team Outplays Tufts, 9-2 | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...trains, streetcars, and busses, listening to the radio, or writing until I got polio when I was 14 years old. Nor have I ceased to play sports since I recovered from my attack: only recently I was warned that my basketball playing was liable to injure my health--I took basketball as Freshman physical training while it was available. Any plan to aid athletes, I believe, is contrary to the whole purpose of sports...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More On Athletics | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

Also speaking at the meeting will be Richard M. Sandler '52, who will give a short summary of the NSA trip he took last summer. After their talks, Miss Bryan and Sandler will answer questions concerning the 1950 tours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NSA Will Meet To Describe Program of Summer Tours | 12/13/1949 | See Source »

...Vice President James B. ("J.B.") Herndon Jr., 50, who was the first manager of the Albuquerque Hilton; Vice President Spearl ("Red") Ellison, 36, who started as a $5-a-month bellhop; Vice President Joseph P. Binns, 43, a relative newcomer to the corporation, who managed the Stevens before Hilton took over. Hilton's son Nick, 23, is learning the ropes from them (his other sons by his first marriage, Eric, 16, and Baron, 21, are not in the business). Hilton lets his managers run things pretty much as they please. He merely sets the targets. When he bought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...took at the facts. One month age, a "workman" started cutting the grass in the Eliot House courtyard at 8:15 a.m. setting up such a cacophony with his electric mower that further sleep was impossible. One week later at the very same hour, he was back with an electric leaf raker, with the same result. Seven days after that he was copping ice, not steadily and rhythmically so that one could get used to it, bur irregularly. Success in this third plot was so overwhelming that he came back the following week and REPEATED THE PERFORMANCE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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