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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the visitors took the medley, Paul Killoran won both the 50 and 100 yard freestyle, and Dave Ayars took the 50-yard breaststroke to give Lowell a 21 to 20 lead with only the 200-yard relay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell 5 Beats Yale Champs, 39-38 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Other individual scorers were Hart, who took thirds in the 100-yard freestyle and 50-yard backstroke, Weatherhead, who was third in the 50-yard freestyle, and Juan Maegli, who took third in the 50-yard breaststroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell 5 Beats Yale Champs, 39-38 | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

After breakfast he usually slipped into his swimming trunks for a few hours of splashing in the Atlantic, and a session in the hot Florida sun. In the afternoons, he napped, thumbed through state papers, or got worried word from Administration leaders in Washington. In the evenings he usually took a hand in the regular poker game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Don't Go Away Mad | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

...Bitter Assessment. This was too much, at last, even for steel-tough Gary (pop. 135,000), which had only murmured over seven other murders since Jan. 1 (all the killers were caught). Gary had long been used to crime. Six years ago some minor hoodlums of the Capone syndicate took over the town, infested it with prostitutes and panders, bookmaking joints and blind pigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Who Killed Mary Cheever? | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

Alone in his dirty, untended Brooklyn apartment, Emory wrote his own mother in North Carolina: "I expect to be dead within a few hours ... All my love." Then he left to meet Norma and have it out with her and her lover at Whittaker's apartment. He took along a pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Broken Connection | 3/21/1949 | See Source »

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