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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doubt for precisely two minutes, right at the start. Johnny Rockwell, who led team scoring with 16 points, put the Crimson ahead 1 to 0 with the first of eight free throws, and Dick Covey followed up with a layup to make it 3 to 0. Then Holy Cross took over. Andy Laska hit from 20 feet out, Frank Oftring put in a charity toss, and Dermie O'Connell scored to pull his team into a 5 to 3 lead...

Author: By Stephen N. Cady, | Title: Cousy, Crusaders Belt Varsity Quintet, 64-48 | 1/6/1949 | See Source »

Captain Graham Taylor was high scorer on the five-man Crimson team and thirteenth man in the tournament. He took seventh place in the cross country and tenth place in the down hill. Dee Bogert, number two man on the team, was twenty-first in the meet and captured eighth place in the slalom event...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Finish In Tenth Spot At Aspen Meet | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Harvard, Yale and Middlebury were the only Eastern colleges in last week's competition. Western State finished second in the tourney and also contributed the top individual competitor, Crosby Perry-Smith. Perry-Smith took first place in both the cross-country and the jump and amassed 388.00 points. Other teams to finish ahead of Harvard were Utah, which placed third; Denver, fourth; Colorado, fifth; California, sixth; Wisconsin, seventh; Nevada, eighth; and Wyoming, ninth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Skiers Finish In Tenth Spot At Aspen Meet | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Below minimum" flight conditions prevailed when the plane took off, Regional C.A.A. Administrator R. D. Bedinger charged yesterday. He said the pilot of the chartered ship had been warned twice against leaving...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Crash Blame Not Set; Harvard Flight Is Delayed | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

Baby-Face & Sugar-Daddy. Lawrence took only a few more stabs at Bertie. "What's the good of living as you do?" he complained. "Why don't you drop overboard? . . . Do become a creature instead of a mechanical instrument . . . start at the very beginning and be a perfect baby . . . Oh, and I want to ask you, when you make your will, do leave me enough to live on . . . My love to you. Stop working and being an ego . . . Are you still cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Bertie | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

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