Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position to quickly flank the defensive tackle or end. If a back is placed thus, the formation immediately loses its balance. It is, however, by far the best arrangement for playing a kicking game as a threat to keep one back out of the secondary defense, and gain a from it are very likely to be of appreciable distance. It is used by practically all teams in conjunction with one or more of the other formations...
...mile relay, the Blue clad runners won a log on the Frank O'Brien trophy when they trimmed Harvard in the first heat and went on to cross the line in front of Cornell. Dartmouth later boat the Crimson quartet to gain third place...
Before these States or their neighbors can turn the tide of the election, it will be necessary for Republicans first to gain much strength, to capture and consolidate much ground that is still highly debatable. This is exactly what Republicans hope that they will do when their candidate is picked at Cleveland. This, too, is exactly what Democrat Hurja & friends assume the Republicans will not be able to do, after the firm of Roosevelt, Farley & Co. really takes the field...
...After all is said, business is but a privilege. Ours is not a right but a franchise. . . . If this be so, then the Government, representing both the people who gain most by our present system and those who suffer most, has the right and duty to control and organize this privilege so as to raise and fortify the general level of American life...
...editorial reads: "No attempt is made to give a practical idea of the workings of a political system. . . of the machinery of primary, cancus, convention, election, and legislation . . . There must be many among us who, whether or not of a voting ago, would be more than glad to gain knowledge by actual experience of the Intricacies of federal, state, and municipal politics...