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Word: gained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot bounded by the Smith Halls, Dunster, Boylston, and Mt. Auburn Streets, this acquisition is not immediately essential. It would require a greater difference than this in financial outlay between the proposition of the Student Council and any alternate proposal to justify the sacrifice of an ultimate gain to an immediate economy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SECOND YARD | 1/26/1929 | See Source »

Changes. According to present estimates of 1930 population, the following states will gain or lose in their representation and their electoral vote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

From an Electoral College standpoint, the new distribution, with its ten added votes in California and Michigan, gives normally Republican states an electoral gain while Democrats show a slight loss, reductions in much of the Solid South balancing other increases. The reapportionment also will increase urban versus rural representation, thus possibly aiding the Wet cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Stolen Seats | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

This meet will be the first test of Farrell's material on the boards, and will give a basis for predicting the winter season. Many new runners will have an opportunity to gain valuable experience in indoor racing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FARRELL SELECTS 45 MEN FOR ANNUAL K. OF C. MEET | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

...gain inherent in the keeping of the name of Harvard before the public mind in association with educational progress is apparent. To achieve this gain it is essential that Harvard news appear in the columns of the daily press. It is infinitely to be preferred that this news be collected and distributed by Harvard officials than that it be allowed to leak out through any of the numerous channels that lead from a complex organization. Official preparation of the news for the press by an authority in whom is vested sole responsibility for publicity would eliminate at the source those...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD IN PRINT | 1/16/1929 | See Source »

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