Word: gain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Plan: In order to reduce the waste of meats, and to gain other advantages named below, it is proposed, (1) that the meat, fish, and eggs, be priced on the menu card, (2) that a small book of tickets, (like a mileage book), be issued and charged to each member, and (3) that the price in tickets of the meat ordered shall be given to the waiter with the verbal order. Menu cards would be furnished at breakfast and lunch, as well as at dinner...
...finished in fourth place. Stone, the second Harvard runner, seemed to be badly used up on his third lap and finished 230 yards behind McEachern of Wisconsin. Colwell then took up the race for Harvard and made the best time of the afternoon. Setting his own pace, he gradually gained on the entire field. At the end of his third lap the pace began to tell, but he managed to pass Gale of Chicago, who started 100 yards ahead of him, on the home stretch of his last lap. Walsh, who took up the last relay for the University...
...approach to Harvard Bridge the Weld boat led the Newell by about three-quarters of a length, but just as the crews were entering the bridge No. 7 of the Weld crew caught a crab on account of the heavy sea. This enabled the Newell crew to gain half a length, which it kept for only a short distance. The time was 11 minutes and 37 seconds...
...LOSS AND GAIN STATEMENT. Restaurant Department: Dining room: Receipts, $29,273.10 Payments, 30,812.59 Loss, $1,539.49 Lunch counter: Receipts, $3,675.21 Payments, 3,168.79 Gain, $506.42 Cigar counter: Receipts, $2,444.73 Payments, 1,880.24 Gain, $564.49 House Department: Receipts, $15,677.80 Payments, 15,625.40 Gain...
...GENERAL SUMMARY Loss in Dining Room, $1539.49 Gain in Lunch counter, $506.42 Gain in Cigar counter, 564.49 Gain in House Department, 52.40 $1,123.31 Balance (loss...