Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style is rapid and sketchy, though poignant. Streeter gains his end in describing the natives, or a scene, or a hunt without pressing sentence after sentence upon us. Photographs in great number help us to gain a more thorough knowledge of what the author has seen. Perhaps more praise ought to be given the author for supplying us with such an amount of visual record; those who care to read the book will enjoy them; those who don't will suffer...
Mayor Quinn's chief qualification for office is the fact that he has held his post, for better or worse, a whole decade. At one time h eattefpted to exterminate mosquitoes, thereby endearing himself to the populace. Shea and Robart gain Harvard's attention by placing their campaign headquarters at either end of the yard. Councilor Russell is a Harvard man and the son of former Governor Russell, one of Massachusetts' few Democratic chief magistrates...
...movement by the so-called quality magazines to gain the attention of the culturally middle classes has been a growing success. It began quietly enough eighteen months ago when the editors of the Atlantic Monthly discovered that as long as they confined their letters of subscription solicitation to college graduates, their returns averaged only one subscription to one hundred letters. But when the butchers and bakers and candlestick makers were added to the mailing lists, the average jumped to twelve per hundred...
...bearish day last week when securities on the stock market were being heavily sold, Baldwin Locomotive stock worked its way higher, closing with a net gain for the session of over nine points. This reflected marketwise the fact that the Fisher brothers of Detroit, onetime owners of Fisher Body Corp. lately incorporated into General Motors Corp., had waged successful battle for representation on the board of directors of Baldwin Locomotive Works, of whose common stock they own 120,000 shares, a controlling interest. Samuel Vauclain, President, opposed to the Fisher brothers, was prevailed upon to allow them two places...
...John Paul Jones moved in a dazzling maze of intrigue and outcry. The Duchess of Chartres had helped him fit his ships, and he was a welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent...