Word: took
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find ridiculous and limiting hours of service. Quad residents trekked through wind and rain, thanks to Hurricane Floyd, because of the disengaged Harvard shuttle service. Athletes faced a particularly difficult task--practicing across the river, eating in Dunster and living in the Quad, all without shuttle service. Students who took advantage of temporary housing before Sept. 10 made themselves comfortable in the Quad only to transport their belongings to the River Houses a few days later, and some Quad residents were assigned, appropriately enough, to live in Mather House...
Ogletree and the rest of the crew did their best manually bailing out of the boat an estimated 2,000 gallons of water, with Ogletree filling more than 100 buckets. Yet, the Coast Guard, which had initially said it would only take 45 minutes to arrive, took nearly three hours, arriving in a 47-foot boat instead of a 110-footer, which better suited...
...make matters worse, it took the Coast Guard nearly an hour once they arrived to throw over a line to the Escort. And once the line was received at around 3 a.m., the long journey back to harbor still lay ahead...
...while Vanderhorn took five years to return to the sea after battling waves close to 100 ft. in Hurricane David, Ogletree has already been back out three times since late August...
...went through a very troubled and difficult history...It took a long time for it to become the tremendous success that it is today...