Word: gain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Griffin traveled to Boston twice this year to gain material for his latest articles
...offering this plan to the University because I believe it is my duty as an undergraduate to do so. I do not expect the least personal gain since I am fast approaching graduation and have already arranged to take my meals at Bill's Place...
Then one day veteran Railroadman Raoul Dautry, Joliot-Curie's boss on the Atomic Energy Commission, came to Saint-Sylvestre.To the assembled villagers Dautry said: under a law of 1810 all subsoil wealth belongs to the state. Therefore no individual would gain from radioactive hectares. At the maximum the local uranium fields would need less than 50 workers. Therefore even a new hotel or restaurant might not be assured of success...
...game, as far as the attack man is concerned, is to gain a stop on the man guarding him, by any one of a number of crafty maneuvers. Foremost of the offensive arts is "dodging," (see cut left) in which the man with the ball fakes his defender off balance and then spins past him. There are also a number of "brush plays" where one of more attackers stage a traffic jam which prevents the defenseman from keeping up with the ball carrier...
Three men will gain their University boxing titles unopposed. Ruse Bath is the only entrant at 125 pounds, Charley Weiss the lone fighter at 130, and Fred Ravreby the only heavyweight. Weiss, boxing for Kirkland, won the College title in the House tournament, and Ravreby has already annexed the freshman heavyweight title...