Word: took
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...essay on Mechanism in Thought and Morals, Oliver Wendell Holmes reported how he experimentally took ether and, while under it, believed that he had grasped the key to all the mysteries of philosophy. Still remembering it as he came to, he scrawled on paper the all-embracing truth: "A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout." G. P. LAYBOURN JR. Minneapolis, Minn...
Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...
...team changed or was it the same same same he jumped up and turned off the turntable. As soon as "Crimson in Triumph" had stopped spinning, he picked it up, centered it on a nail over the mantel, and pushed his favorite horseshoe up against it. Then he took "Ten Thousand Men of Harvard" and carried it carefully into his bedroom, placing if underneath his pillow. The Columbia game couldn't be helped but there was many a night until Yale...
...that was the year Yale won the famous 3-0 upset. Harvard's Barry Wood took the opening kickoff and slipped it backwards to Jack Crickard, who slipped it forward for ninety-five yards. Yale was about to be immolated according to prescription. But Harvard never scored, and Albie Booth's fourth-quarter fieldgoal was a one-stroke decline and fall of the Horween empire. During the next three years Harvard ruined Bates and New Hampshire regularly. Period...
...Harlow took over in 1935. He was plenty able, but the flotsam and jetsam he found on Soldier's Field were too much for anybody to get rid of in a year. So Harlow lost to Holy Cross, Dartmouth, Army, Princeton, and Yale in his first season...