Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Grover Cleveland did not gain his experience for the Presidency in the Orient, but as Governor of the Empire State; Woodrow Wilson did not gain his experience for the Presidency in the Orient, but as the Governor of New Jersey; and Calvin Coolidge did not become proficient in the ways of American government in the Orient, but as Governor of the State of Massachusetts...
...practically everything he tried for. His returns were never purely defensive. He coaxed Richards, the best volleyer in the world, to the net so that he could win points passing him. This week, at Forest Hills, will be played the U. S. Professional Championship Tournament. Until amateurs gain enough nerve to enter professional tournaments, the winner of this is only unofficially the open champion...
...first team was given the ball on its own 30-yard line. French attempted a tackle play but was thrown with no gain. On the next play Guarnaccia went through left tackle for twenty yards. A pass, French to E. T. Putnam '30, failed, but French raced around the left wing on the next try and, evading the scrub half backs, covered the intervening distance to the goal line. Putnam kicked the extra point...
...exports for the first half of this year. Motor cars and trucks exported numbered 260,072 (44,837 more than in the first half of 1927); were worth $184,687,815. Tires: 1,344,000 (225,072 fewer than last year). Parts: $55,318,127 worth ($1,152,428 gain). Best car customer was Australia; best truck customer, Argentina...
...Lawrenceville in New Jersey, the loss (for a year) of Novelist-Professor Thornton Niven Wilder, writing a novel in England, tramping with a friend; the gain of ten new Masters...