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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast skating: game coach Stan Priddy's second line took top honors. With Rip Lynch weakened by the grippe, the number one line couldn't come through to score. But the combination of Morgan Hatch and Jack Snelling was just right to puncture the Arlington defenses...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet Lengthens Streak | 1/18/1949 | See Source »

...last two years moviemakers have been trying to lure Douglas away from Broadway, but he refused their long-term contracts. During his first few scenes in A Letter he suffered all the shakes and quivers of opening night. When the movie was completed he took a deep breath and signed a seven-year contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 17, 1949 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Felton '48 took time off from the Business School this weekend to break the New York 35 pound shotput record by over a foot. His 57 foot 9 1/2 inch heave, only 10 inches short of the world's record, helped the New York Athletic Club into fourth place Saturday afternoon in the senior New York Metropolitan track championships on Columbia's wind-swept South Field...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Felton Sets N.Y. 35 lb. Shot Mark | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Drohan, in his last appearance in Harvard athletics, took a handy first place in the dive. Amassing 91 points in his New York showing, Drohan was followed by teammate Gordon Weir who was making his first start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Wrestlers Flatten Columbia, 24-10; Swimmers Take All Firsts, Sink Lions, 61-14 | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Yard Police took steps. They restrained their eager lock-wielders. A hardy student who had continued to plug northward suddenly discovered his trip unobstructed. He quickly spread the word; students streamed up to the new library again; they blinked at the lighting and gaped at the pastel-colored books tacks. And Chief Randall and his faithful group of Police retired in a state of quiet but vigilant apprehension, carefully balancing the advantages of the open gates against the danger of possible nefarious incursions into the Yard from without. They have little to fear, however. Their action has gone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wide Is the Gate | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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