Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Questionnaire was sent out to 2,700 social workers of whom 10% replied. "The results of the questionnaire are recorded here because, while they represent facts not so much as opinions concerning facts, they gain significance from the marked preponderance of one type answer...
Today a man can take a Tripos in almost any set of -ics and -ologies that he may select, it indicates a higher standard of examination than the "Special" and it is only by taking a Tripos that a man can gain an "Honours degree...
...50?See Laurel Mountains ahead and gain height to cross them ... as dusk falls lights may be seen for great distance on the mountain lanes...
...presence of such sights as I saw in the dance halls and not find myself stirred with wrath, and if my cheeks did not grow with hot shame, not merely that the human race had fallen so low in its tastes, but that men, for the sake of dirty gain, should be thus permitted to prostitute youth and to put a mortgage of immorality upon the coming generations...
...returned to the scene to plan the French strategy in conjunction with Marshal Lyauty. The French problem now seems to be rather a race with time than a battle with the Riffs. After Sept. 15 they can no longer count on good weather. It is improbable that they can gain a decisive victory before the winter rain sets in, and then they must wait until April for fair days. This week's successes place them in a strong position for organizing themselves to hold their present territory over the winter. The Morocco-Algerian railway is now well behind...