Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Farrell is also sending in 12 other men to compete in the dashes, hurdles and the N. E. A. A. U. 1000-yard run. In order to gain further experience a majority of the team is being held back for next Saturday's Triangular Meet with Cornell and Dartmouth which will provide the first conclusive test of the season for the team as a whole...
Both University and Freshman candidates are practicing together at present under the tutelage of Coaches Mahan, Mitchell, and Davidson, and an excellent opportunity is offered for men to gain valuable experience. New men may report to the cage on Soldiers Field today...
...Americans are too deeply inspired with the feeling of independence to allow anybody to dictate the manner in which they should show generosity. There is everything to gain by letting them choose themselves what they shall do. Cyrano was rather like that...
...number of such seamen protem,' has increased since the appearance of federally operated boats," he declared. "Thus, of the thousands who feel the wanderlust when school is closing, hundreds possess fathers who know somebody who knows somebody else who has a friend on the Government payroll.. So they gain access with their brand-new oilskins and their letters of introduction to ship offices on Broadway, New York, while the old-timers wait outside...
...uniforms of officers and students have been emblazoned with the eagle of cowardice and the "bar sinister" of illegitimacy! True, the eagle need only turn his head, from right to left to signify valor, the sword of Mars had only to be changed to a "dexter" diagonal to gain Kipling's benefit of clergy, but the fact remains that nobody knew it until two years ago when a war department official realized the mistake. Nobody knew it, that is, who was in a position to have it changed or to mention the mistake to those who might. Imagine the countless...