Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed to the 40 that it took Harvard's orotund Astronomer Harlow Shapley hours to get to the point. First he had to make a little speech, then announce the names of the eight runners-up, make them each take a bow. Finally the two winning names shot out. First prize: Dwight Taylor. Second: studious, pretty 16-year-old Caroline Stuart Littlejohn of Oklahoma City...
...browed, pipe-smoking social scientist who looks younger than his 49 years. He was born in Texas, went to Texas public schools (in Austin) and the University of Texas, spent World War I as a private in Texas, and married a Dallas girl. In the early '20s, he took a Harvard Ph.D., later moved north and joined Harvard's faculty as an instructor in government...
Before "the Assembly of the World Council of Churches at Amsterdam . . . I took no part, or only a small part, in the 'ecumenical movement,' indeed had all kinds of criticisms to make of it, since all 'movements' as such have always been and still are somewhat suspect in my eyes. But in this case I must confess, using the words in their ordinary sense, 'My mind has changed...
When dark-eyed, fast-moving Violist Garry A. White, 36, took over as director of the conservatory in 1945, he knew exactly what he wanted: a conservatory to train 1960 musicians instead of the 1900 variety...
...taken a few score ballplayers to camp this month, Rickey had assembled more than 200-from Dodger Captain Pee Wee Reese down to raw bushers* trying to make the grade in the Dodger farm system at such places as Mobile, Ala., Ponca City, Okla. and Cairo, Ill. It took organization to keep that many players throwing, batting and listening to the oldtimers. Rickey had it all worked...