Word: took
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long while Bucknell's faculty and students had a hard struggle. At the first commencement in 1851, seven sheepish seniors took turns wearing the only gown in town, changed costumes behind a screen. But as central Pennsylvania grew, so did the school. Last week Bucknell held its summer commencement with full academic pomp. One hundred sixty-six of its 2,400 students received their diplomas, took a farewell glimpse at the spacious 300-acre campus overlooking the Susquehanna Valley. Among alumni who had preceded them: General Tasker Bliss, ex-'73, U.S. Army Chief of Staff in World...
...reporters took their readers on a guided tour of 46 flophouses, where 12,413 bums slept in lousy cubicles for 50? or 60? a night. They watched hard-faced jackrollers stripping the pockets and stealing the shoes from sodden bums, saw prostitutes plying their trade amid the lumber piles and back alleys, found that "a surprisingly large number [of derelicts] at one time were trusted employees, executives or professional...
After the series started, circulation of the Daily News (514,627) jumped as much as 20,000 copies a day. Thus publicly put on the spot, police and health officials took hasty action. They shut down 56 saloons and restaurants pinpointed in the Daily News series, until they complied with the laws. But even with the heat on, Mooney and Bird found 32 drunks sprawled on Skid Row in a ten-minute walk. Police Commissioner John Prendergast threw up his hands: "What can we do? Arrest them all? The Bridewell [prison] is full." It looked as if it would take...
...drop into pubs and strike up conversations, to sit on benches in Hyde Park...I don't think there is any serious charge in my whole series that hasn't been printed in British newspapers and magazines...Nobody was more surprised than I when the British press took the stories so seriously...
Portly Justin Miller, president of the National Association of Broadcasters, took no stand on the merit of giveaways but wondered "whether the commission has any authority to promulgate any rules." His wonder was shared by FCCommissioner Frieda B. Hennock. In her dissenting vote, Miss Hennock maintained that "without a specific mandate from Congress for us to curb the prevalence of this type of program, our action today is unwarranted." Even a contestant was heard from. Mrs. Elaine Smith of Dallas, recent winner on CBS' Winner Take All, pouted: "It's a shame the FCC should be so nasty...