Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard swimming team has fallen on hard times this year. Harvard is not likely to finish in the top of its league, but there will be a chance for its promising young swimmers to gain valuable experience...
...Netherlands to mark down their money in retaliation. Had that occurred, the resulting chain of devaluations might have ripped the world's monetary system apart, and perhaps even caused a prosperity-wrecking slowdown in world trade (as happened after 1931). Moreover, only with limited repercussions could Britain gain the necessary time to repair its own floundering economy and increase exports to bring its trade deficit into balance...
...past, most private foundations have been reluctant to endow chairs and have preferred to give research money and then left universities gain their own capital. But Ford has apparently come to the conclusion that endowment grants are necessary to build up a field of interest...
Both pro and anti-war forces claimed victory after the Cambridge Election Commission announced the results of the petition vote. Carolyn Carr, CNCV campaign manager said that the group had not expected to gain a majority and that the results were a "remarkable repudiation of the President's policy on Vietnam...
Both teams scored in the closing minutes of the half. Harvard took the lead when Kelly climaxed a 45-yard drive with a five-yard scamper around the end. Yale evened the count as Schmoke drilled a short pass to slippery halfback Bernie Sowley to gain a half time...