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Word: took (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steady stream of wrong numbers continued at a five-a-day clip. It took about a week to discover that the number of the Telephone Shopping Service of Fileno's was ELiot 4-5000, and that Bostonians, in their haste to latch onto a new pair of pants, had been mixing up the phone number of "the world's largest specialty store" with that of four tired freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Errant Phone Calls Plague Freshmen With Requests | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

...Dunster House Funsters took a tight 41 to 38 basketball decision last night over the Eliot House Elephants, while the Gold Coasters trod over a Leverett House team, 34 to 30. The Adams B team was not so fortunate, however, losing to the Bunnies by a 41 to 33 score...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Defeat Eliot House Five; Adams Triumphs | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

Cambridge police yesterday claimed no knowledge of a mysterious nudist who supposedly took four Radcliffe girls and a woman motorist by surprise at the corner of Linnaean and Walker Streets Tuesday night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nudist Still at Large | 12/16/1949 | See Source »

After MIT took the first event, the 300 yard medley relay, they lost the next five events badly, failing even to gain a second place in any of them. The Varsity squad placed successive firsts and seconds in the 220 yard free style, the 50 yard free style, diving, the 100 yard free style, and the 150 yard back stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Sink MIT, 52-23 | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...yard freestyle and the 100 yard freestyle events to lead the team in points won. Steinhardt, besides winning the 150 yard backstroke, was starting man on the varsity 300 yard medley relay. Kinney, the only other varsity man to swim in two events, won the 440 yard freestyle and took a second to Bob Berke in the 220 yard freestyle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Varsity Swimmers Sink MIT, 52-23 | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

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