Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...team than three active backs and a signal caller, cool and clear-headed though the latter may be. And they opine that a line which charges low and uses its hands produces a wearing and wearying effect upon its rivals and develops opportunities for its secondary defense which gain better results than can be obtained by a line assuming a more upright stance. And they agree that wingmen who tear in and force a hurried development of a rush or a pass form a better gamble than do the waiting ends...
Stafford received the scrub punt and made the second brilliant run of the afternoon when he wormed his way by half a dozen black jerseyed tacklers for a 30-yard gain. Coach Fisher subsequently gave the ball to Coach Knox's team on its own 20-yard line. They falled to accomplish anything...
...second team was given an opportunity to emulate Team A's example, getting the ball on the University's 25-yard line. The scrubs were equal to the occasion. In four plays they made a first down 14 yards from the goal. Following another gain, they advanced the ball to the five-yard line on an offside penalty. The Crimson players then held for three downs. It looked as if they would keep their goal unmolested for another day. A perfect pass from Gillies to Sanchez, who stood quite unnoticed ten yards behind the goal, finished the episode quickly...
...time when students are notoriously interested in inferior activities, it seems too bad to deal severely with so commendable an institution as the Advocate. But the best way to gain respect for such a magazine is for the editors to command it. Closer rapport between its editors and the instructors of composition courses, even English A, might help in acquiring the best material in college; often young authors are too modest or diffident to submit their work voluntarily. Surely there is more literary gold in Harvard than is being mined
...total business of the Society amounted to $909,400, in round figures, as compared with $831,860 during 1922-23. The gain in the Harvard Branch was $81,100, while the loss in the Technology branch brought the total gain down to $77,540. The gain in membership amounted...