Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arthur Valpey passed his first examination at Harvard. The new coach should be happy over his opening victory. When Arnie Horween took over the job in '26, Harvard lost its opener to Geneva (of all teams...
...Wallesley alumna, Mrs. Alper took her Ph. D. at Harvard. She taught at Wellesley and Radcliffe before joining the faculty of the extension program here...
...explore with detachment the dangers, for one of his heritage, in the life of imagination. For generations that heritage had been profoundly Puritan. After his sea-captain father died of yellow fever in Surinam, his mother lived in Salem as a recluse; his uncle, Robert Manning, took charge of Nathaniel's education and alienated the boy thoroughly. He became evasive and apparently indolent, writing in puns and private language to his sisters, even writing invisibly, in skim milk-a trick that later seemed symbolic of some of his tales. His vivid older sister Elizabeth, who seemed the genius...
...choice is tentative, though, for the HDC must still find an actor and actress who can fill the difficult lead roles. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine took the parts in the New York production 12 years...
...back to this little neck. I asked the man how much, and he said $200. I took pity on him. I told him to go back to the Piazza and get his ring's worth from some rich American. I told him that we were just youth hostelers, and thus among the poorest of the poor. He asked how much we had, and I said, thinking this would get rid of him at last, that between...