Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year all students and faculty at the Medical School will be required to wear badges with their pictures on them in order to gain entrance to the school's buildings...
...zanne's importance as progenitor of modern art has, paradoxically, blurred him as a painter. As the English art historian Lawrence Gowing remarks, "In his last years Cézanne was reaching out for a kind of modernity that did not exist, and still does not." To gain any sense of that terrain, one must consult the paintings: and that is hard to do, since they are scattered across the world from Leningrad to Los Angeles...
...short kickoff following the touchdown gave Harvard excellent field position on its own 40 and the chance for quick revenge. Quarterback Burke St. John capitalized on this opportunity by hitting Rich Horner for a long gain on the third play from scrimmage. The score came on a St. John bootleg from the five that made the Dartmouth defense look as animated as the trees in Hanover...
...fiction works, "Zen stories," and thrillers--the last under the pseudonym of E.V. Cunningham. His best-known works are historical novels such as The Unvanquished, Citizen Tom Paine, April Morning--all set during the Revolutionary War--and Freedom Road, a tale of the Reconstruction Era. But Fast will probably gain the most recognition from his latest novel, and from his two upcoming novels, which will complete a trilogy tracing the growth from 1889 to the present of the three families he introduces in The Immigrants. Fast has already completed the next volume in the saga, Second Generation, which will...
Whether the new student advocacy groups can actually organize themselves effectively and gain influence remains an open question. The Student Lobby has been set back; the discouraging history of activists' attempts to form all-student government casts further doubt on the viability of these efforts. Still, the administrators who run the University now make only token, perfunctory efforts to consult the students whose lives they affect so deeply. The new groups raise hopes of democratizing the University, a goal so important that these initial steps should not be belittled...