Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children figured largely in her scheme to gain more power. One daughter (Marie) she married to Yugoslavia; another (Elizabeth) to Greece. She hoped that a third (Ileana) would marry Bulgaria, but King Boris did not press his suit when it was gossiped about that Ileana was Prince Stirbey's, and not King Ferdinand's, daughter. Through her daughters Queen Marie hoped to exert powerful influence throughout the Balkans; through her eldest son she planned on ruling Rumania...
...attempting to gain its first victory over the Army since 1931, Harvard faces a comparatively light but star-studded eleven. In Yeager, Stella, Hatch, and Frontezak the Military Academy has a quartet of grid performers who could play on any man's squad...
With the exception of this one series of plays, the game was even, with neither team able to gain through the other's line. There were no other scoring threats...
...belligerent seizes a neutral ship, it usually runs the neutral into its own port, seizes its contraband cargo, and if more than 50% is contraband, condemns the ship. The neutral protests with as much vehemence as is compatible with the strength of its case. It may try to gain the ship's release, lay the basis for claims for damages after the war. If the belligerent captor, hard-pressed by enemy raiders, sinks the neutral vessel, procedure is for the crew and ship's papers to be taken off, the crew for the sake of humanity, the papers...
Admittedly weakened by the Price-Tiger cotillion the night before, the Prince editors were unable to gain from scrimmage or by any other means, liquid or solid. The CRIMSON's attack was featured by the stellar broken-field ballet of Light-Horse Harry Hammond, who caused a sensation when he appeared on Brokaw Field in full football togs...