Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the time came for assembling all this material coherently, Researcher Mary Elizabeth Fremd took over. The result of all this work was a no-page report covering the year's economy, segment by segment, giving the pertinent opinions of outstanding business and government leaders, earnings figures, a chronology of events, new products, debt-financing and its inflationary effect, etc. Altogether, her report listed about 10,000 confirmed figures...
...words. He was in a mellow and reminiscent mood. He joked about his old Army days with Eddie, recalling how as Canteen managers they had reaped profits for their artillery battery fund by selling $3 sweaters for $6. A handful of scribbling reporters dropped their pencils and took it easy. They picked them up when Harry Truman abruptly left Eddie and the Army, and began to talk about the worries of the world...
...19th day, when Colonel Beaudry landed his ski-equipped C-47, the boys smilingly showed him the bunk they had prepared for his stay. But in 38 minutes they were aboard and sweating out the jet-assisted takeoff. "We faced into the wind, counted noses, checked the engines and took off," said Co-Pilot Blackwell...
When he finally reached the mountain he sought, Frye had to climb 50 feet up the wall of a cliff to get at the inscription. Clinging to the face of the mountain, he and two native companions took impressions of the stone-writing with squeeze-paper...
...vote of 25 to 8, the membership of the Harvard Liberal Union last night reversed the position which it took against the draft last March and defeated a motion favoring repeal of the present Selective Service...