Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...explanation of the workings of the University took up the first part of Dean Bender's talk. Harvard's organization, though complex, "has the merit of working," he said, and has kept it going for 300 years, while nations have fallen by the wayside...
...after Dies had "retired" from his public duties, John Rankin managed to have the committee put on a permanent basis--until then it had needed yearly renewals of power--and kept it going until the Republican sweep in 1946. Then J. Parnell Thomas took the sacred trust. Thomas had been Dics' right-hand man on the committee ever since its creation. As a Republican in the era of Roosevelt, Thomas had waited patiently for his day, and by the time of his accession he had learned so much from his chairman that he was actually able to out-Dies Dies...
...exposures of radicalism and New Dcalism were hardly the sort of things Dickstein had had in mind. And when Dies took a merely routine wallop at the German-American Bund, and produced an American Federation of Labor man who testified that Communists were ensconced in both the CIO and the federal government, Dickstein gave vent to some heart-felt criticism...
Alice Gilbert '49 was confirmed as the New England regional chairman, and Frederic D. Houghteling '50 received a similar vote of confidence for the treasurership. One more local figure took a place on the regional board when Robert C. Fisher '51 was elected as recording secretary...
...repulation of those two ends that led Valpey to rely on an inside game, with Paul Shafer bucking the line and Chip Gannon largely restricted to defense. Shafer took the worst battering of anyone on the squad. According to preliminary doctor's reports, he will be out of action for one week, possibly two, which is a good indication of Army's line power...