Word: gained
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with those of the Advocate, have at length been answered. With great satisfaction we have counted, near Gray, five narrow planks, so skilfully arranged that he who steps thereon repents with wet feet. We have lost a fruitful subject for each number, but is our loss any one's gain? The intention of the College was doubtless good. We hope to see the yard paved with more such good intentions...
...glowing colors the benefits, mental and physical, to be derived therefrom, nearly as follows: the pleasure of seeing and knowing personally the editors of so many papers; the relief of the journey to the wearied editorial brain; the lasting friendships we might thus form; the knowledge we might gain of each other; the "dignity" it would give college journalism; and last, the power resulting from unity of purpose and action, - for, as it conclusively asserts, "there is strength in unity." It also suggests St. Louis as the central point where the intellectual host shall assemble...
...making a spy-glass of his breast; but when the alternative is that it "undulate afloat on soundless depths," we beg leave to advise any man, in view of such a calamity, to spread his sails rather than fold them, especially if his purpose is to gain a rest "in being unbeyond" This remarkable piece is followed by a few remarks of Emerson's, then an article by O. W. Holmes, then an original essay, then part second of a serial entitled "Translations of the Bible; then in rapid succession we notice that John Brown and Milton...
Deserted in her bed for gain in France...