Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...however, by a spurt finished almost fifteen yards ahead of Adams. DuBois, who was pitted against Pennsylvania's fastest man, Klahr, was unable to diminish the lead so that when Behr started on the relay for Harvard he was fully twenty yards behind Orton of Pennsylvania. Behr could not gain any on Orton and the last relay finished almost as it began. The time by half-miles follows 1/2 1 1 1/2 2 2m. 1 3/5s. 4m. 4 2/5s. 6m. 2 3/5s. 8m. 4 4/5s...
...took the lead at the start and kept it throughout the entire race. Wisconsin pressed Yale hard at times, but was never able to take the lead. At the end of the first relay Foster who finished last was nearly twenty-five yards behind the winner. Grew did not gain in the second relay. In the third relay Buffum lost more ground and when Mills started on the fourth relay he was about three-quarters of a lap behind the others. He slightly diminished the distance between himself and the winner...
...suitable king and a good husband for Anita, and he tries to bring about the match. The Princess has taken a great liking to de Breeze, so that it seems feasible. By this move, Ping Pong and Chichester see their hopes of securing possession spoiled, and both determine to gain their ends by strategy...
...Weld, rowing a point lower, slowly drew ahead, and, after two-thirds of the distance had been covered, had a lead of half a length. These positions were maintained until within some fifty yards of the finish, when the Newell crew raised the stroke and began to gain rapidly. The Weld boat, however, crossed the line first by about two feet. The time, 9 minutes, 44 1-2 seconds, was the fastest made during the afternoon...
...Harvard rule is as follows: "No student shall be allowed to represent Harvard * * * who shall at any time have received for taking part in any athletic sport or contest any pecuniary gain or emolument whatever, direct or indirect, with the single exception that he may have received from the college organization or from any permanent amateur association of which he was at the time a member, the amount by which the expenses necessarily incurred by him in representing his organization in athletic contests exceeded his ordinary expenses...