Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported to have said, "I must place my resignation in the Regency's hands." Prince Nicholas is an amiable, weak-chinned youth, a reputed follower of the religious doctrines of Frank N. D. Buchman, famed for objectionable proselyting of U. S. college students (TIME, July 18, 1927). To gain time, His Royal Highness pleaded that he must consult Court Chamberlain Hiott. Passed two days. Then Court Chamberlain Hiott publicly denied with appropriate indignation that Her Majesty the Dowager Queen Marie had communicated any statement, interview or intimation whatsoever to Universal. "I consider this affair," said he, "a shameful scandal...
...members, a gain of 37,482 in the last year...
...close photographic version of the stage play in which Mr. Arliss has long given the title role; so the scenes end abruptly, and concentrate entirely on straight dialogue, rather than presenting any attempt at original photography. What is lost in color is, however, well balanced by the gain in directness and clearness; and, more important, adherence to the stage version keeps Mr. Arliss on the scene most of the time...
...important part of the Hoover and MacDonald attitude lies in the fact that each is eager to find a solution to the problem, and that in approaching it is this frank and informal way they are going far to create what Ramsay MacDonald so well stated was necessary to gain physical disarmament, namely, moral disarmament...
...time and again. With six men in the line and two men backing it up closely, the West Pointers smashed the heralded Harvard laterals, but it was the threat of this play which made the Crimson aerials go. Twelve forwards were hurled and seven were completed for a total gain of 168 yards. Not for several years has a Harvard football team exhibited such accuracy in this department as was shown by Putnam and Wood, on the throwing end, and O'Connell and Harding, the receivers...