Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...want them to be numerous," he concluded, "because I know all of them will gain by contact with your energy and practical sense, your firm ideals, pure morals, and elastic liberty...
...here will remember lastingly the brave and simple French soldier. It is to be expected that Joffre will remember Harvard. Perhaps through him France will gain an increased respect for the learning of America, and the two nations be bound yet more firmly by the ties of free thinking as by the ties of free action...
...report of the Princeton University Athletic Association for the season of 1915-16 shows a gain of almost $3,000 over the profit of the previous year. The sum total gained by athletics at that university amounted...
...increase in revenue was due chiefly to greater receipts from football than has been the case in former years. The returns from the Yale game alone netted $45,000, as compared with $34,000 in the previous year, while the figures for the game with the University showed a gain of $2,000. The expenses in football remained the same, which was not the experience of the University in this sport, inasmuch as football expenditure here showed an increase of nearly $2,000 over last season...
...departed from America, voyaging to that Austria from which he came once more upon the bounding deep. With him went Baron Eric Zweidinek von Sudenhorst and Prince Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, with a score more of euphemistic princelings. The Austrian Embassy's loss will be the Washington city directory's gain...