Word: gainers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Paul (three banks which were creditors of his bank).* Thus Waggoner had apparently not engineered his scheme for any personal profit, but had sacrificed himself for his bank, which for a long time had been faced with dwindling deposits and threatened collapse. The Bank of Telluride was gainer by almost a halfmillion; the six Manhattan banks were losers by a halfmillion...
...break with a familiar mode of life and abrupt transplantation into one with different customs and language is a handicap not overcome without both ability and earnestness. Both of these the emigrants have shown themselves to have in no small amount, and the country of their adoption is the gainer for the addition of such a group of productive workers to her ranks. As is the case with most persecutions, Soviet Russia has secured outward some degree of conformity to its tenets only at the price of parting with some of its best citizens. America has welcomed such immigrants before...
Robert Gilmor '31 has proved the most consistent ground gainer throughout the season, while V. R. Kiser '29, the outstanding defensive player of the team, has several times demonstrated his ability on goal line stands...
Bernard White '32, who proved to be the outstanding ball carrier on the field when the Freshmen defeated Andover 19 to 0 last week, is expected to be the chief ground-gainer today...
Would the postponement make the choice easier for the all-powerful selection committee? Would the U. S. be the gainer by the delay? Or would the veteran Argentine combination win the advantage of additional practice, better acclimatization...