Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Adams defeated Saybrook in golf, 3 1-2 to 1 1-2, at the Dedham Polo and Country Club to gain another Crimson leg on the Harkness Trophy, awarded each year to the school winning the inter-college intramural competition...
...Yardlings played some of their best lacrosse of the year during the first half. Charging aggressively from the start, they grabbed a two-goal lead within five minutes on sharp shots by Hank Wood and Don Stewart. Exeter managed to gain the lead, but goals by Wood, Ron Huebsch, and Norm Hatch gave the Crimson its halftime advantage...
...will have one advantage which he hasn't had so far this season. When he was freshman coach here three years ago he got to know a great many of the players who McInnis will field this afternoon. Considering that M.I.T. has nothing to lose and a lot to gain, the knowledge might be very useful...
McInnis will again use his regular lineup. Ira Godin, who has been a long time in reaching his 1949 form, looked very good Friday when he defeated Columbia for his first victory. Godin was bothered with a sore arm earlier this season, but is now fully recovered and should gain his second victory easily...
...husband (Pinchwife) into the gay, loose world of London society; the second is a triangle between Pinchwife's sister, the fop Sparkish, and the wit Harcourt; the third involves the bold and unquestionably piquant attempt of one Mr. Horner to pass himself off as recently castrated, in order to gain access (for purposes easily imagined) to the wives and daughters of unsuspecting friends and associates. How these plots are connected and what strategems are used by the various contestants (people in the seventeenth century were crafty beyond all measure) defy explanation...