Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...class of 1718 in the University, and Tutor and Fellow of Harvard for 20 years. His intention, as expresseed in a note on the fly-leaf, was "to write down the Lives, Characters, and Works of all the Authors in those Arts and Sciences which I intend to gain an insight into." Some 276 pages are then filled with lists of authors, with information about them and their books, which Mr. Prince intended to read...
...Bingham and those who are working with him are trying to gain efficiency through directness of approach and through a reduction of friction. Taking duties certainly peculiarly fitted for those intimately connected with the work from those less well endowed cannot be considered as other than progressive. The tendency to allow a dubiously adequate system to exist usually betokens sluggishness or fear of novelty. That these who are at the center of Harvard athletic affairs are adjusting and making more effective their machinery is to be praised...
...lone touchdown came shortly after the opening of the second half. The Sophomores ran the kick off almost to midfield and then proceeded to drive 55 yards to a touchdown. The advance was made entirely on short line bucks, no gain being more than eight yards. Brine and Bell did most of the carrying, the former being particularly instrumental in pounding the 1927 defense. With the ball on the one yard line Morris pushed through center for the touchdown. Brine's try for point went wide of the up rights...
...course, in such an arrangement, a happy balance must be maintained. Neither party should gain too great an ascendancy, and the utmost fact should be observed in all their dealings with each other...
...Saturday with several spectacular runs. He was personally responsible for two of his team's three touchdowns, one of which came at the end of an 80-yard march down the field, which the Eli back accomplished almost single-handed, a three yard buck by Foote being the only gain in this drive which Caldwell did not make...