Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...special call has been issued for coxswains who can gain a considerable advantage by acquiring experience during fall rowing. Men of 115 pounds' weight or less or eligible...
Team A was once more given the ball for an attack in midfield. Cheek made a four yard run and then repeated passes were incompleted. A throw front Coady to Crosby was finally caught and netted a 20-yard gain which was followed by another pass from Cheek to Crosby for a touchdown. Cheek missed the goal...
...regarded as certain that Maréchal Pétain will strengthen his present formidable line into, an impregnable winter position rather than attempt to gain an immediate victory. In Paris talk of Foch and 1918 has subsided...
...grip of the play on sentimental and therefore large portions of the public cannot be denied. Alexander Woollcott put his discerning finger on the secret when he called the play a great love story. That it undoubtedly is, and as such must gain an inevitable and not unmerited popularity. But Mr. Arlen is not dealing in a new, smart medium as the world believes. It is love and sacrifice that makes The Green Hat good entertainment; not wit and glittering philosophy...
...will do so because an occasional lecturer becomes unduly technical, and most of all because in the laboratory they will be forced to spend countless weary hours drawing unimportant pictures of bugs, leaves and frogs' legs with absurd minuteness. The limited conception of the scientific method which they may gain thereby could as well have been acquired in a few weeks instead of a year. Four specialists, most of them human, give a smattering of astronomy, zoology, and botany. The course is relatively new, improving constantly, and can be taken casually...