Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vase and drank it in one breath-as a toast to the 13 cantons of Switzerland." Mr. Ripley had proof for this statement in French histories, which told how Marechal de Bassompierre, famed convivial, was sent by King Louis of France in 1625 to recruit Swiss guards and gain a pledge of allegiance from the Swiss cantons. Two Manhattan physicians, last week, said that the medieval historians had exaggerated, for it is impossible for the human system to hold 13 pints of any liquid at any given moment, and also impossible to drink more than 5 pints in one breath...
...athletics around whose heads have centered the storms of controversy raised by the charges of commercialism and over-emphasis that seemed more numerous than ever this year. But the season has been even less carefree in those regions beyond the pale where the professionals exploit their prowess for financial gain. Tex Richard, the leading promoter of boxing talent, having taken the new champion, Gene Tunny, under his wing, organized what is known as an elimination tournament to select an opponent for him. But the result resembled that of the struggle between the Kilkenny cats, for when it was all over...
...awaits solution by a stalwart U. S. patriot. True, there is talk that U. S. bankers are planning handsome developments, which is to say exploitations, in Peru. But Mr. Moore, with all the money a man could decently desire, is far above being a dollar diplomatist. All he might gain is greater familiarity with financial bigwigs, and that he could compass by far handier means; as a home-loving tabloid publisher, for example...
Everyone has seen the self-advertisements of newspapers which read something like this: "Bugle-Clarion led all Creamtown newspapers for February in gain in creampuff advertising." Other Creamtown papers would, meanwhile, be advertising that they led in something else. But prouder still is the paper whose grand total exceeds all others. Last week Editor & Publisher announced total agate lines of advertising for U. S. newspapers in 1927. The ten leaders (all but the last being published seven days per week...
...became climbers, others into level lowlands and became squatting farmers; others into seashores and became aquatic. Millennia spent in the same sort of places developed distinct types of men. But of whatever type they were, and wherever they lived, they improved their lots. The more difficult it was to gain a livelihood, the quicker and the farther they rose in mentality and spirit. And the purer a race kept itself, the quicker and higher it rose among its neighbors. Today, writes the shrewdly erudite president of the American Museum of Natural History, "purity of race is found...