Word: gain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth quarter, Roy Moore, booted a 50-yard spiral across the Berkeley goal. From the 20, the Mitres, with Lamoreaux passing and running, were unable to gain ground. Foster intercepted on the Mitre 25. On the next play, quarterback Don McSweeney whipped around right end, utilizing a deceptive change of pace, down to the Berkeley 5. This time Foster put the lid on by scoring over center...
...Puritans, attired in white jerseys, received to start the game. For the first four minutes neither team was able to gain. After two poor kicks, it looked as if Winthrop were going to be forced onto the defensive, but an interception by Joe Peden brought the Puritans up nearly to midfield...
...discus-throwers. His touch has provided healthy humor in abundance and a dash or so of moving drama. The picture fails, if at all, in being too long, occasionally too slow. It has departed at times from the moving picture formula of pictorial action in an attempt to gain nuance by drawn-out monologues and dialogues, which ordinarily succeed only when surcharged by the vitality of flesh and blood players...
...types--the conflict remains undecided. Second on the list of present problems is that of subsidizing brilliant scholars. With the extension of the National Scholarships Plan every year, the growing Harvard trend is a definite approval of such proselyting. The average man's loss is the brilliant man's gain, it seems. Then there is the allied question of the merits of a "concentrated" education versus a "broad B. A.," degree, both sides of which have their exponents. But brilliant National Scholarship men are seldom likely to excel in a variety of fields; they tend to have one specific objective...
...Bolivia went a strip of the western Chaco, the border drawn so that it keeps Paraguay 100 miles away from Bolivia's rich oil fields. Most notable Bolivian gain, however, is a gateway to the sea through the Paraguay River. Ever since the War of the Pacific (1879-1883), in which Chile defeated the combined Peruvian-Bolivian armies, Bolivia has sat in her Andean aerie without a handy water outlet for her tin, silver and oil. Between Bolivia and the Pacific there were 75 miles of none-too-friendly Chile. The final arbitration in 1929 of the Tacna-Arica...