Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anew. With the annual elections still more than a month away, 605 out of 788 sophomores signed a petition declaring that they would join no club at all unless bids were extended to every student seeking election. It was true, said the sophomores, that the 17 clubs now took in 87% of those who wished to belong, but it should...
Blackboard Labor. He took a job as traveling salesman for a textbook publishing company, and it was then that he got his big idea. In classroom after classroom, he had seen children laboriously copying off spelling drills from the blackboard. From his own experience, he knew that the teacher had probably spent hours thinking up the exercises. W.P. began to wonder whether there might not be a simpler way to carry on the drill...
...Cummings, chairman of the giant Consolidated Grocers Corp., thought there was something wrong. He felt that neither he nor the grocers were selling enough food. To find out how to boost sales, the boss of the largest U.S. food wholesaling organization packed a sample case eight weeks ago and took off on a tour of hundreds of stores in ten states. He frequently donned a cotton coat and worked for stores behind the counters, "cut the cans" (gave out free samples), watched shoppers' buying habits and gossiped with scores of customers...
...report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President's wife and his secretary had much...
...took a month of pressure-group tactics by Ashley Weare '50 to bring the millenium. And Juan U. Maegli '50, former chairman of the House Committee, had to consult dining hall officials, who consulted other officials...