Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more specific by last week, that great wharves were about to be built at Montauk Point (at the easternmost tip of Long Island) for U. S. transatlantic steamships, that the Pennsylvania R. R. was to extend its fastest service to such wharves, that U. S. transatlantic ship service would gain a day thereby...
...cast had the verve and spontaneity which comes only without rehearsal. Individual bits of skilful characterization and subtle nuance were too numerous commendation. Certainly the achievement of the football squad, even under the handicap of mere practice, contrasts sharply with the inability of the Dramatic Club's finest to gain recognition from First National. The yardage gained in clods of earth compensates in great measure for footage lost in film...
...scrub defense was stiff the University forward line was impregnable and it was only when A. O. Fordyce '28, scrub end, intercepted a pass that Coach Knox's men were able to make any considerable gain. The first University score came with team B on the field. With the ball in his own territory G. C. Holbrook '30 kicked short and the pigskin went to the second at mid-field. S. C. Burns '30 then intercepted a pass and covered the 50 yards necessary for a touchdown. G. E. Donaghy '29 put the ball between the uprights with a placement...
...your own State College. It was opened 43 years ago ... as a preparatory school with 35 students. Since that time it has reached the proportions of a college of agriculture and mechanical arts with an enrollment of about 1,400 students. . . . What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? . . . Colleges should be temples. . . . The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge...
United Brethren: No loss; net gain...