Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nine, William Claude Dukinfield conceived a passion for juggling. In the Philadelphia stable where the family vegetable cart was stored, he practiced earnestly with oranges and lemons. But the elder Dukinfield took a dark view of his son's ambition, and once he went as far as to tan him for bruising a lemon. Incensed beyond containment, William climbed aloft in the stable one day and dropped a large box on his father's head. Then he left home, never to return...
Toombs is an ex-newsman whose wife took ill and left him to care for their three children. If there is a word of truth in Raising a Riot, Toombs ran about like a chicken with its head off for 18 months-a spectacle that may weary some readers after 18 pages-and finished every day feeling like "an egg dropped on concrete...
Reformer. In Zanesville, Ohio, Joseph George Buca admitted making off with a slot machine containing $18.65, insisted that he took it only because the machine was illegal...
...election took place, because the whole board of editors was not present. Instead Shafer, Wiggin, and Darrell resigned...
Scattered interviews around the Square last night showed that Radcliffe girls took the news with a "Well, why shouldn't we" attitude, while their Harvard dates bristled with shocked indignation. One Leverett man even described the candy coated paint as "facial falsies...