Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Webster gives the following definition of a gentleman "Law, A respectable man who engages in no occupation or profession regularly for gain." British Gentlemen, like British Peers, are listed annually in Burke's Landed Gentry...
Nominee Hylan hopes to gain Republican support as a fusion candidate. Against his hopes looms the short, swart figure of Manhattan Republican Congressman Fiorello H. La Guardia, who expects the Republican mayoral nomination. By way of preparation, Congressman La Guardia last week went to the U. S. Army hospital at Hot Springs. Ark., had his tonsils removed...
Hence prize contestants must fly level at no faster than 35 m.p.h., get a variable speed in normal flight of 45 m.p.h. to 100 m.p.h., glide three minutes at 38 m.p.h. with engine shut off, land within a 100-ft. space, take off in 300 ft., gain more than 35 ft. altitude within 500 ft. of starting takeoff, and fly "hands off." A manufacturer's pilot may put the plane through its best maneuvers. Guggenheim Fund pilots then try the plane themselves...
Publicity Director Michelson is a distinct gain for capital Democracy. Born 60 years ago in Nevada, he has spent his life as a newsman, starting in San Francisco. On the staff of the New York Journal he covered the Cuban Insurrection, was seized by Spain for crossing lines without permission, imprisoned for several months. He is the brother of famed Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson (University of Chicago) and Author Miriam Michelson...
...real fielding sensations though were provided by Bassett, diminutive Crimson centerfielder, who made two seemingly impossible catches in the fifth to gain the biggest hand of the entire game...