Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...felt in their bones that the indecisive sparring on the Egyptian front had gone on long enough. They sensed, too, the fact that the war in North Africa had reached a curious and explosive stage, where each side had everything to lose, and nothing to gain, by waiting for the other to strike. It was this feeling, a kind of intestinal divination, that made men everywhere listen for the guns...
...Gain & Loss. This week the Canadians licked their wounds. Losses in manpower were known to be high-probably two to three thousand. The Allies confessed that they had met unexpected resistance. From the Germans, who first claimed that they had repulsed a full-fledged invasion, came claims of "very high casualties" among Allied soldiers in killed and wounded. They also claimed 1,500 captured. Probably more than 5,000 Allied forces were engaged...
...usual program at the under graduate level and an all-out training of military personnel with the balance of their facilities. Efficient training cannot start until the catch-as-catch can system of undergraduate deferment is ended. Meanwhile Paul McNutt's efforts to step on no toes may gain him the 1944 Democratic nomination, but it will not unravel the college snarl...
Although the combat teams are unparalleled in Yale history, the college hopes to gain cooperation of the students by running the program on a competitive basis and holding a final contest in November to determine the winner of the five game series...
After a lay-off of a week, the team went into action to gain a double success over the weekend, defeating two army outfits, the Lovell General Hospital team of Fort Devens on Friday, and the 22nd Company, C. A. C., of the Portsmouth Harbor defenses, by scores of 7 to 3 and 6 to 5 respectively. The weekend's work brought the team its third and fourth straight wins, all of them over soldier nines, and carried the won-lost tabulation over the 500 mark for the first time this summer...