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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wise to Vince Foster; he was a 5-6 favorite. At the bell, he bounced out of his corner, landed a couple of hard body punches. Then Fusari saw an opening. He threw a solid right to the chin. Vince Foster went down with a crash and took a count of two. He got up, ran into more long, looping rights, was knocked down twice more. The referee stopped the fight. Vince Foster, beaten in exactly two minutes, 26 seconds, stood in his corner while his handlers put his towel and bathrobe on him. He was looking out into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Education of a Fighter | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...news-starved Russian people took quick advantage. Voicemen believe that about 8,000,000 Russians listen regularly to bootlegged news from the West. The reports then flash by grapevine all over the Soviet Union. The Kremlin's answer was jamming. But, says Voiceman Herrick, "jamming is like a chess game." First you make a move. Your opponent makes a move; then you make a countermove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Air-Wave Battle | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

When Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor took over the National Geographic in 1899, he likes to recall, the circulation was so small (900) that "I could carry the entire issue on my back." Today, says Grosvenor, who shares his magazine's passionate addiction to detail, "A single issue would form a pile more than eight miles high, or 79 piles each as tall as the Washington Monument." In its familiar yellow-bordered, acorn-decorated wrapper, this month's issue reached 2,150,000 living rooms, libraries, throne rooms and dentists' offices from Maine to Monaco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Geography for Everyman | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

Soon after graduating from Amherst College, Gilbert fell in love with Elsie May Bell, daughter of Telephone Inventor Alexander Graham Bell, who was president of the National Geographic Society. When Bell offered Grosvenor a job on the Geographic, he took it (just to be near

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Geography for Everyman | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...York's State Liquor Authority took away Levine's license for ten days. Levine cut prices again and the board again suspended him. After a third offense last March he lost his license...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LIQUOR: Down the Hatch | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

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