Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Xerography's inventor, Chester F. Carlson, 42, a New York patent attorney and physicist, produced his first Xerographic image in 1938. Company after company turned down the process until, in 1944, the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio finally took on the expensive job of perfecting...
...chief of the German army (1938-41); of coronary thrombosis; in Hamburg, Germany, where he awaited trial as a war criminal. Son of a Prussian cavalry general, Brauchitsch increased the Wehrmacht's motorized divisions from two to six, occupied the Sudetenland, led the 18-day blitz of Poland, took Norway, Belgium, Holland, France, Yugoslavia and Greece...
From the start of the Varsity game there was never much doubt that Navy would win, for it consistently took possession of the hall from Crimson players, and in 6:10 of the opening period Archie Ruggieri, the Middies' outside left, shot the ball past goalie Loring Hatchelder who was screened on the play...
Harvard then started to improve but missed several scoring chances, and at the start of the second half Navy's outside right, Dave Space, took a pass from Ruggieri and tapped in the Middles' second goal. Apparently aroused, the Crimson threatened several more times until it ran out of gas in the middle of the last-quarter...
After dispensing with the Communists, Dewey took up social security and aid to veterans. He scolded the New Deal, his eyes bugging archly, for not passing an adequate social security law. In full and vibrant tones he said that above all we must have "friendly" veterans' hospitals...