Word: gained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...part of the yearlings in that period carried the ball down the field and enabled Cheston to put it over for a goal. A few minutes later Ruiz of the visitors evened the score. Two extra periods failed to break the tie although both sides fought fiercely to gain an advantage...
...class organization will meet for the purpose of planning a follow-up movement for this week among the non-subscribers and those whom it is believed would be willing to give additional sums. The holiday on Thursday affected the receipts so that the general fund made only a small gain...
...fact," he continued, "I am strongly tempted to send my son, Stephen Leacock, Jr., to Harvard if for nothing else than for the advantages he would gain by living in those dormitories. In Canada our universities have no such community buildings and I have never been more strongly impressed by our loss than today when I first saw the dormitories here...
...live elsewhere and you need worry no longer as to the necessity for compulsion. As your Freshmen would rather live in the dormitories than outside of them so would your upperclassmen find their dormitories so rich in opportunity that they would not risk losing what they might thus gain...
...There is no better way of realizing what the class committees are up against than to estimate the quotas which each class must raise in order to successfully gain the desired goal of $15,250,000. Boston's share, amounting to $6,000,000, is a little less than two-fifths of the whole...