Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Longworth (Republican Floor Leader) join fiercely in the issue of their ambitions? Martin B. Madden, white-haired and 70, quarryman by profession (the profession which cost him a leg and sent him into politics), veteran in the political arena (as early as 1897, he made an unsuccessful attempt to gain a Senate seat from Illinois), he who, in 1921, was lifted into the Chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee over the seniority rule, because of his businesslike grasp of affairs, gathered his Western and Middlewestern cohorts and advanced on the Speakership. Mr. Madden, as described by the apt pen of Clinton...
...father-in-law decided to run on a third ticket; Longworth did not go with him, but he lost, nonetheless. In the main, his trouble was that he shone in the public eye by virtue of reëleeted glory. Not until he was made Floor Leader did he gain any general reputation of his own. "Speaker Longworth" will give him another claim to distinction on his own account. It will give him a name of his own, in which he may have hope of becoming a Senator from Ohio. Following the Republican caucus, the Democrats of the House held...
...optimistic estimate of Harvard's chances gives the Crimson three firsts, three seconds, and two other more remote places. In other words, if every University performer is at the peak of his form, Harvard will upset predictions and gain its indoor intercollegiate title...
...Commerce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Cosmopolitan, Canopus, Gyro, Caravan, Women's Civic. Said Mr. Proper: "This movement is the beginning of a great crusade. . . . Science has shown us that what is true in the laboratory test tube is true in the outside world. Both the church and the layman will gain immeasurably by this experiment...
Into the ring were led four animals of splendid family, physique and decorum. To gain entrance into that final class, a dog must have been recognized as superior to all other dogs of his kind. The four were: Governor Moscow, pointer, owned by Robert F. Maloney-a lean, piebald dog, massive-boned, with dark shelves under his eyes indicating his aristocratic birth. His tail stood out behind him like a dandy's cane, lacquered in black and white...