Word: gain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lloyd McKin Garrison Award for the best poetry submitted by a Harvard undergraduate went to Kenneth Koch '48, of Cincinnati, Ohio and Kirkland House, whose financial gain is $165. Koch's poetry has appeared in many American literary magazines, including, of course, the Advocate...
Harvey Love's yearlings will be seeking to gain some solace from their third place finish behind M.I.T. and Cornell in their curtain raiser last week. Main reason for the squad's poor showing was the sudden illness of the number 6 man, "Swannie" Swanson midway through the course...
Eddie Davis' Jayvee players weren't very charitable hosts to their unfortunate visitors from Providence. Goalie "Mad Anthony" Ripley handled all shots with aplomb to gain himself a shutout, and just about everybody who had a chance scored a goal...
...knew exactly what to say. There had been so many landmarks to note in his long career that only weathered phrases were left. M.P.s rang what changes they could in the House last week. King himself declared with conscious modesty: "Today's record makes clear that to gain and to retain power in a free country . . . it is not necessary [to] be either a superman or a dictator...
Hapless Dudley took another dive on the diamond, and Leverett was so much the gain for it. A pair of commuters was all Dudley could scrape up in the way of ballplayers, but they weren't enough to make the game interesting. Leverett won by forfeit...