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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stake. In St. Louis, when a holdup man took his last $40, Grocer Max Levy protested that he needed some change to continue with the day's business, got $5 back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 28, 1949 | 2/28/1949 | See Source »

...tired Radcliffe teams came home from Providence last night after losing to Pembroke in both bowling and badminton by narrow margins. Pembroke took three out of five badminton matches and totaled only eight points more than the Annex at bowling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pembroke Trips 'Cliffe In Badminton, Kegling | 2/26/1949 | See Source »

What with the hundreds of open stalls for big dogs and closed stalls for little ones, the show took up most of the Hall. We weren't quite sure why they boxed in the little hounds. Either they are uniformly vicious little dogs or their loving owners suspected that Boston dignitaries were not above shoplifting a champion Chihuahua to show the folks back home...

Author: By Ernest L. Carswell, | Title: Egg In Your Beer | 2/25/1949 | See Source »

...lead changed hands twice before the visitors finally took command. Joe Kozol drew in the 121-pound class and Brown went ahead on Gray Michael's decision over Bob Abboud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mat Team Topples Brown, 19-13 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

...freshman match which preceded the varsity bout, the undefeated Brown Cubs took their sixth straight win at the expense of John Chaffee's Yardlings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Mat Team Topples Brown, 19-13 | 2/24/1949 | See Source »

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