Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of college education prior to military service, the Regents said, would result in a "gain in maturity of judgment, which is most important both for the young people involved and for the total welfare of this nation...
According to present plans a small group of members will leave Cambridge on December 26 for Maine. Arriving at Millinocket they will snowshoe the two day trip to the base of the mountain and then spend another four or five days trying to gain the summit...
...Gain 230 6'3" Kentucky...
...Yard, on which the University had failed to place board walks in snowy weather, as "licensed highways to the Stillman Infirmary." Another one of his editorials had a prophetic ending: "There must be many among us who, whether or not of voting age, would be more than glad to gain knowledge by actual experience of the intricacies of federal, state, and municipal politics...
...time like this, you miss being in direct touch with the situation. But I came to feel that, with the nature of the underlying crisis, you have to get away from day-to-day developments to gain perspective from a point of vantage. It is so confusing in Washington you're not sure what you believe...