Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every subscriber of "his" that you lose, you will gain...
...steadily began to improve. He saw to it that the press was received well and given the necessary information. For the past few years, his work has been taken for granted; but then it involved a radical change in, policy, and later proved vitally significant. It meant that Harvard gained good-will among the public because of its being presented in its true colors, and meant also that the student body would now gain valuable men which it previously lost because of unfavorable reports...
...groups in the present Board would force it to live in an atmosphere of compromise and adaptation. As a practical effect, each member would bargain and haggle with the others as to the meaning of the Act. This would sacrifice a consistent and systematic interpretation of principles without the gain of any corresponding advantage, and would tend to forfeit the support which the courts so far have extended to the Board. Earl G. Latham...
...Police found on one suspect a copy of what Scotland Yard officials called the '"S-Plot" or secret instruction issued by the I. R. A. Main points: Sabotage Britain's industrial life, join Britain's civilian defense corps to "look respectable," gain access to wartime supply depots, raise hell...
...monkeywrench was thrown into the organization of the team this week as both Burce Richardson and Pete Illman found that they are unable to wrestle. This means that the team which was in a position to gain a little more poise from their last meet is once more faced with the task of introducing inexperienced wrestlers in varsity competition...