Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This spread, at which an excellent menu will be served, will be as always open to all members of the University. The defray the expenses of the spread tickets costing $1.25 will be necessary to gain admittance. There are at present on sale at the Phillips Brooks House...
...great desire to be successful in the Army was interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...Harvard representative at New Haven is still in doubt. The 1928 nine now in the lead, plays against the 1929 aggregation today, and the 1927 team tomorrow. One victory out of this pair of contests will gain the laurels for the Juniors...
...allowed her to leave, turned, delivered a benediction: "Peace on earth-good will to men!" As her fame spread, there came offers for lecture tours. For some time her objections to the theatre kept her from mounting a stage of any sort. Finally she saw opportunity to gain temperance converts, accepted speaking offers, became rich. When she spoke in burlesque theatres she considered herself to be "like Christ among the publicans." In 1903 she tried, unsuccessfully, to see President Roosevelt; then entered the Senate Gallery, sold miniature hatchets. When she rushed into the Senate Chamber shouting: "Treason, anarchy, conspiracy-Discuss...
...passed when the absorption of one college by another can be seriously decried as an elimination of competition for monetary gain. None would have dared impute such a thing to the megger, announced last week, of Drake University with its fellow-townsman, the University of Des Moines (Iowa). Yet to the name of Drake, under which the merged institutions will proceed, imputations were made plentifully not 20 years...