Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...examples: one Social Studies class in San Jose took up the topic of elections. The students, reading about the low numbers of registered voters in their town, went out, rang doorbells, and played a part in increasing the registrations for the November 1948 elections by 4,000. An English class in Fortuna. fascinated by the building of a new dam in their county, interviewed engineers, studied blueprints, took pictures, and wrote and sold a magazine article on their experience. In San Diego, a science teacher said...
Maybe "Wintergreen" did it. Maybe not. At any rate, the sun came out of the clouds and the varsity took charge of the football on the two-yard line and started to push it downfield. The local partisans forgot all about those 41 points and began to cheer the team to a 14 to 13 victory in what some chose to regard as the second game of a double header...
...Harvard took the kickoff, was held for downs, and had to kick. Lowenstein's punt carried from the Crimson 34 to the Army 30, but Shultz ran it back to the Harvard 40. Pollock and Stephenson alternated on seven straight power runs, the latter scoring from the 17 over Harvard's left tackle. This time Bob DiBlasio broke through to block the conversion attempt...
...matter what, they'll never have to sell that big drum, or the heavy upright base drum. The base is the world's largest, made of pure brass and priecless today. The band bought it for $100 and costs of transportation, from a company that it took it after-John Philip Sousa's band came...
...band has had its troubles--there's no question about that either. Ask the Dean's office. There was the Virginia trip that they took, from which they almost didn't return, and there was the Stanford trip, on which they didn't go at all. Their chronic financial ills are well known. Ask the HAA, or better, ask the band's manager. Each year there's the possibility that the band...