Word: gain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Airways and the large domestic airlines, whose engineers fly thousands of miles a day trying out the same apparatus Miss Earhart uses and recording a mass of data under all sorts of conditions she cannot duplicate. No revolutionary invention will be tested on the hopscotch trip; what aviation may gain are the observations one woman in a large plane can jot down when she is not piloting, navigating, or working the radio. Since Miss Earhart started the flight on every front-page in the country, any accident to the equipment will also be described there, and at one swoop...
Playing a game that is, if anything, tougher than football over 60 men are now working out each trying their best to gain a position on the squad of 20 that will travel to sunny Bermuda during the Spring Vacation to open the season's official schedule. Started in 1929, the popularity of the sport has grown rapidly, until last season the team was undefeated. This year it is hoped that three teams will be kept out all the time...
...eternal verities, such as they are, seem best to be apprehended by the historical method. Such study can counteract the isolating effects of scientific or philosophical concentration. The laboratory concentrator may gain the scientific ideal of truth, but the garish light of day, outside of the walls of Mallinckrodt, may color anew the values he has learned by lamp-light. And philosophy, as it is taught at Harvard, cannot even do that, but produces an intellectual dry rot, crumbling when touched...
Almost as harmless and twice as ingratiating as his gang of burglars is Dr. Clitterhouse, gracefully impersonated by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. The amazing doctor has undertaken a part-time life of crime not for gain but to examine at first hand the pathology of crime. How his clinical studies lead him into more trouble than he had bargained for makes a felicitous tale as amusing as the nursery underworld it describes...
...when Harvard had scored twice and the count was 14-13 Struck just missed the point that would have brought a tie. He started to gain his revenge in the first game with the Elis, for he covered Kelley so carefully that the Yale player scored but eight points while Struck was rolling up a total of seven for himself...