Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...walked off the stage in the middle of a scene because she wanted a glass of water. Her most recent eccentricity had caused Her Cardboard Lover to end its tour, and had deprived the producers and the other members of the cast of profits which they deserved to gain (TIME, April 2). The Equity Council conferred and came to a decision: Actress Eagels should be fined $2,000 and suspended from membership until September 1, 1929. This is the most severe penalty which the Equity Council has ever seen fit to impose...
Ambassador Morrow's important gain has been to secure apparent justice for those U. S. citizens who held bonafide Mexican oil lands...
This extremely severe discipline was meted out by the Supreme Pontiff in an effort to stop the famed editors of L'Action Française, Mr. Leon Daudet and Charles Maurras, from trading upon the prestige of Catholicism in order to gain Royalist supporters. This they have done by spreading a perverted doctrine, namely that Catholicism-which has so often upheld a stumbling royal house-should at this date espouse the lost cause of the Most Catholic House of Bourbon...
...ruffled brow and calmed the palpitating hand. For the Reading Period would come in May, and in May Radcliffe would come again to Harvard. All was well; though reading assignment and thesis pluck at the heart of the courageous, yet even when the trial was hottest they would gain sweet respite. The Brattle Hall stage would blossom with lovely faces and form, and the Dramatic Club would ward off disaster even at that faltering midpoint of the Reading Period...
Though he was one of its least conspicuous members, Senator Ferris' death made a difference of two votes in the Senate. The Democrats lost him and the Republicans stood to gain a seat when his successor was appointed by Republican Governor Frederick W. Green of Michigan...