Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nine times he waged unsuccessful compaigns for political offices (State treasurer, Mayor, Governor, U. S. Senator). His political creed: Gain office in the legislatures of capitalism to carry on the war for a peaceful revolution within their very walls...
...CRIMSON in undertaking to put out the Register for the Student Council next year believes it will be doing a definite service. The college alone is a big place, and it seems next to impossible to gain the simplest facts about one's next door neighbor, or about the most prominent organization without extensive and minute researches...
Coach Wachter will start a team which he hopes will gain a third victory over the Elis in as many years. His men enter the game about evenly matched with the Yale players; each has lost the more important games of the season, and the comparative scores give neither a decided advantage. Both have been defeated by Dartmouth and Columbia...
...simplified Jew rapidly adapts himself to any age, mimicking that type which his intelligence tells him is able to secure the greatest gain with the least wasted effort. The Jew has developed from the medieval usurer into the modern capitalist and the advanced communist dictator...
...water ice and 600 lb. of salt. For shipping frozen fish from Manhattan to Detroit, 1,200 lb. of carbon dioxide supplanted 17,000 lb. of ice and 1,700 lb. of salt. The slightly higher cost of "dry ice" was much more than offset by the gain in space available for pay freight and the cleanliness and ease of handling...