Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Methodist Episcopal: No loss, but a net gain of only 13,729 in a total membership of 5,177,467, after the total of lost members was subtracted from the total...
...denied that Mr. Stephenson had given him $2,500 or any other amount for his gubernatorial campaign. When the Stephenson expose began, Governor Jackson was in Kansas, where he occupied a pulpit and gave a sermon on the text: What is a, man profited if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? After the sermon the choir sang a hymn: "It must be told." Then back to Indianapolis went the Governor and, at first refusing to comment on the Stephenson check, later gave an explanation of - an explanation which brought the deceased horse and the horse...
...entertainment and decreed the issuing of a special postage stamp to be licked by Legionnaires and stuck upon their letters home. Many of these stamps, valid for the convention period only, will be treasured by thrifty recipients, locked away in strong boxes, brought out decades hence and bartered for gain...
...What do we see in China today? Nothing but maladministration, treachery, bribery, and wars. China is suffering more than anything else from too many rotten generals. They are everywhere, fighting and marching, backward and forward-not for China, but for their own personal gain...
...known power of the first Harvard crew to represent the regime of Head Coach E.J. Brown '96 will undoubtedly lead Coach Leader and Stroke Laughlin of Yale to plan a race very different from the 1925 campaign. Two years ago Yale allowed Harvard to gain an open-water lead, the Elis conserving their strength until the last two miles, when they pulled ahead to win. If Yale gets behind tomorrow, they will find it difficult to catch up. Stroke John Watts '28, once his crew gets the lead, keeps his eye on the rival boat, matches every sprint, and strives...