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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only Crimson swimmer entered in the meet, Norris took third place ahead of Emile Estoclet of Yale and Roger Watts of Iowa State. Norris won the Eastern title last week in 19:40.6. Housner, last year's NCAA winner, was clocked in 19:04.8 last night, Sala Awam the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Norris Takes 3rd Place in National 1500-Meter Test | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

...Doxsee struck Cirrotta in the stomach. He took a step back and sat down on a divan," Tesreau said. "A couple of the guys began to tug at his sweater as if to rip it off him. He got up and apparently ordered the fellows to get out of his room...

Author: By Andrew E. Norman, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Dartmouth Death Case Gets Grand Jury Hearing May 18 | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

...another announcement made by Dolph Samborski, Director of intramural athletics, the individual high scorers in House basketball were disclosed. Johnny Goldsmith of Lowell took top honors with 227 points for the season. The runner-up, Bob Crichton of Eliot was far behind with 164 points. Third place in the standings was taken by Dudley's Brad Ryan with 163 tallies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell Wins Winter Sports, Still Trails Kirkland | 3/22/1949 | See Source »

With a handful of chicken sandwiches, a Thermos jug of hot tea and some water beside him, Odom took off and headed east. Nine hundred miles away, he waved goodbye to a B-17 which had gone with him for company. Six hours later he waved hello to another which came out to escort him over San Francisco. Over Chicago, he failed to notice that a gas tank had gone dry, lost several thousand feet before he could get his stalled engine started from another tank. Over Pennsylvania, he plugged in an electric razor and shaved. Then he landed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Small Wonder | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Wall Street Economist Nicholas Molodovsky of White, Weld & Co. finally took the bull by the horns. Quoth he: "Stock prices are still engaged in a long-term basic cyclical decline. Yet I also believe that, within a shorter segment of time, we are now at the inception of a significant intermediate rise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Tell Me, Little Gypsy | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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