Word: gained
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Members of the Union only will be admitted to the meeting on January 7 and must show their membership cards to gain admittance...
...Armenia depends for its life upon the immediate assistance of the Great Powers. This is no exaggeration--either we gain support today or tomorrow we are wiped from the earth. The Turks, and the Young Turkish party in particular, are reorganizing to absorb us again, and we are too exhausted to light them without outside support...
...efforts of the friends of the Irish republic to gain for it the recognition of the United States should meet with flat rejection. For the past few days a bill to provide funds for the establishment of consular representatives to Ireland has been under the consideration of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Action favorable to this proposal can amount to nothing less than an admission on our part of the independence of Ireland...
...competitive work required consists mainly in securing subscriptions and advertisements, with general business efficiency as a recognized factor. Men in this competition not only come in intimate contact with undergraduate life, but gain a large amount of practical experience from their business relations with firms in Boston, New York and other cities. Men elected business editors compete in their Junior year for the position of business manager...
...from the burdens and sorrows of the great masses of men. There is no danger of such alienation springing from absorption in learning or in scholastic interests. The danger will come, if at all, in viewing a college course exclusively as the surest way to material success and personal gain...