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Word: gained (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston College, ranked as the East's top inter-collegiate hockey team, had to battle from behind to gain a 2-2 overtime tie with Northeastern last night in the opener of an Arena doubleheader...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 2/28/1953 | See Source »

...interested in developing the Voice he would not have suggested this. For if any part of our foreign policy needs to shuck the attitude that America Equals Perfection, it is psychological warfare. Aimed as it is at people who hate us for out autos and out skyscrapers, it can gain only envy if it pursues this tactic. In its attempts to spawn anti-Communism, psychological warfare tackles a most difficult enigma in human relations: conversion. and converters, from St. Paul onward, could testify that their job is hopeless unless they can tie their doctrine to ideas of those they influence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Faltering Voice | 2/26/1953 | See Source »

Coach Bob Pickett's wrestlers bounced back from Saturday's 21 to 9 drubbing at the hands of Princeton, and came from behind to gain a 14 to 14 tie with Springfield yesterday. The Crimson now has a 4-4-2 record for this season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Tie Gymnasts and Bow to Tigers | 2/24/1953 | See Source »

...sequences, and there would be strike scenes. But, Jencks said, the picture is mostly fiction and would even have some love interest. "If Hollywood tries to blacklist some of its finest workers," he added, "that is Hollywood's loss, but if these workers help us ... that is our gain . . . The union has just as much right to make a movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: I.U.M.M.S.W. with Love | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

Favored Brown had to come from behind to gain a 16-16 tie with the newly shuffied lineup of Coach Bob Pickett's varsity wrestling team at Providence Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wrestlers Tie Brown 16-16, At Providence | 2/16/1953 | See Source »

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