Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...like the register of the national order of the benevolent and protective fraternity. I asked him for a cigarette then the fight was over. And he wants to see me again in two weeks he can providing he's interested in the dead. If the tutorial system is the gain that they say around here. I'm with Milton: or the Bible or whatever it is that says "My dearest gain I count but loss." This tutor of mine honestly would make Simon Legree look like a guardian angel...
...give Harvard students opportunity to voice their opinions and gain experience in public speaking was the cause of the foundation of the Harvard Debating Union four years...
Some women riding to hounds in Geneseo, N. Y., came to a place where, because no fox will go where there is iron, they could gain on the beast by taking a cut of a mile along the railroad tracks. They had ridden into a deep culvert with sides too steep for the horses to vault when suddenly the rails began to tremble, a train thundered round a curve a few hundred yards behind them, and they were called upon to decide a delicate conflict between morality and sportsmanship. Morally, they were obligated to save their own lives if they...
...noticeable improvement in the forward pass defense was one of the few bits of encouragement gleaned by Crimson supporters from Saturday's game. William and Mary's highly-touted aerial attack failed to gain the visitors much ground, the Harvard backs knocking down a large majority of Matsu's tosses...
...major part of the game. In sharp contrast to the tackling of the Crimson forwards, the William and Mary defenders stopped the Harvard backs short. Captain Elliott, M. Davis, Parsons, and especially Todd, aided by the half-backs, buried the "new" Crimson offense; even Crosby failed to gain much ground. Cheek was still saving his leg and did not carry the ball; Miller made a couple of good gains in the closing minutes, but by that time the William and Mary players, seven of whom played the entire game, were exhausted, and for the first time the charge...