Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity hockey team, starting with a goal at 0:18 of the first period, completely mastered a cellar-dwelling Dartmouth sextet at Hanover last Saturday to gain its first Ivy League victory...
...that no Government could afford to miss it. Its underlying fallacies may be summarised as follows: Armaments are relative, not absolute. If Powers A and B reduce their armaments by, say, 10 per cent, their relative strengths, other things being equal, would remain the same. There would be no gain in terms of security. No limitation of armaments, whether at existing level or at an agreed lower level, is practicable, because the ratios between the Powers are inconstant. If A and B agree to limit their armaments, the real ratio will be changed if, for example, A invents new weapons...
...into the board's regular meeting to see what it would do. At first the members-Chairman Foehn presiding-hemmed and hawed. Finally, one member moved that the political gag be reconsidered. The move was defeated 4 to 3, but with Foehn's vote, this was a gain of two "ayes" for the teachers. Then the board tried to squeeze out of its predicament by considering an amendment excluding the health and retirement systems from its rule. It never mentioned the six insubordinate teachers, left the pertinent documents in the case sitting quietly in the board attorney...
Still smarting from Tuesday's unexpected tie with spirited Brown, the varsity will be anxious to gain the first leg in its bid to capture the Pentagonal crown for the second straight year, and perhaps to impress Dartmouth coach Eddie Jeremiah. Jeremiah is a member of the board that will select the Eastern representatives to the NCAA Championship tourney in Colorado this spring...
...Asserted that "at the base of all the idealistic thinking from Plato to Marx is the Soviet of the intellectuals." But he scoffed at the idea of intellectuals taking over the government and warned that the politicians are the ones who always gain power...