Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...because of the regular course requirements. Tutorial work should take the place of course works and credits be given for the same. The tutor's report should be considered in granting degrees. Perhaps only 12 or even fewer courses should be required. Seniors could then be free to actually gain the most the Tutorial System has to offer. First Report, Class...
Candidate Curtis, the Party's patient, swart, Indian-blooded Senate housekeeper, headed for the convention with greater hope than anxiety. He had nothing to lose except the votes of Kansas and his daughter. He had everything to gain in case of a compromise, for while he was not the fastest of the "dark horses," he was at least "dark" (see below). In Kansas City he was sure to see more friends than frustrators. On the farm issue he had voted for the farmers, then obeyed his President. Friendship and obedience make good bedfellows for ambition. And after the Presidency...
Inventor White, satisfied, took the machine back to his laboratory for further study. A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, army aviator and flying instructor, his stern mistress is aerodynamics. Quietly, persistently he has worked to prove his theory that a bicycle, like a bird, can gain forward momentum by upward strokes of wings...
Another possible reason for their actions may have be desire to gain publicity. This urge touches many persons and classes in the world at present and it may have a reached into the ranks of college student we doubt whether the students who turned down Phi "Beta" were common enough to be moved by such motives--Indiana Daily Student...
...bureaucracy may happily topple it. With an improved radio system relaying to a passive citizenry every shout of the peasant revolt outside the smoke filled hotel room where the nocturnal setters-up of presidents are bartering votes, it is possible that a disgusted populace may at last move to gain the right of choice of president that has been kept from it so long...