Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eliot and Winthrop each racked up two wins in House squash in league action yesterday as Dunster won one game and tied another. In House hockey, Eliot shut out Adams, 3-0, and Kirkland came from behind to gain a 6-6 tie with Dunster...
...retaining their championship, the Lions accomplished what no other team had managed to do in Otto Graham's eight years of professional play: they held Graham to two pass completions (in 15 attempts), for a net gain of just four yards...
...Connelly, 84, who devoted a lifetime to gate-crashing and became a sports-page legend during the '20s; in Zion, Ill. One eye blinded in a boyhood boxing accident, Connelly masqueraded as a sandwich vendor, iceman, or plumber's helper to outwit gatemen and gain free admission. Before he retired at 65, he boasted that during his career he had seen every Kentucky Derby, all but three heavyweight-championship bouts, countless football and baseball games, on principle had never paid for or accepted a ticket...
November: Either the Democrats or Republicans will gain control of Congress in the elections. If the Republicans, Senator McCarthy will claim the people were showing their appreciation for his work. If the Democrats, Senator McCarthy will say it was because the Communist issue was underplayed. Shortly after the election, he will be nominated for President by the Chicago Tribune, and seconded by the Boston Post. Harvard will shock all the sporting world by going through its football season undefeated and united, and runningup a 60 to 0 score against Yale. Director of Athletics Thomas D. Bolles will then announce that...
...educated for privacy is hardly fit to educate others . . . Without education for privacy, he will neither merit leadership nor learn to recognize it in others . . . That, according to my exegesis, is in this connection the meaning of the Biblical text: Tor what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul...