Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...came the changes which required the offense to gain 10 yards instead of the customary five, and the time-honored halves were replaced by 15-minute quarters. Under these later rules have been waged the conflicts of the past few years
...struggle with Yale last Saturday, when the Crimson team, out-weighed 25 pounds to a man, fought through for a 10 to 7 victory. Owen, Churchill, and Buell were the individual stars of the game. The former gathered in a fumble in the last quarter for a 50-yard gain. In two more plunges he carried the ball across the line for the Freshmen's only touchdown...
...field goal from the 36-yard line. Throughout the game Churchill proved a consistent ground gainer and in the end of the third period he got away for a 50-yard run. Buell, from start to finish, showed his ability to pick out the plays that were going to gain, and to diagnose the enemy tactics...
Aviation has been out adrift as it was struggling to gain a foothold in peacetime industrial affairs. Competent authorities say that the industry is 90 per cent, liquidated, and that the remaining 10 per cent, is slowly but surely breaking up. Major-General Menoher, Director of Air Service, recently testified before a senatorial investigation committee that production is at a standstill, and that the aviation personnel has been wiped out. Such a condition is the more deplorable upon consideration of the action of foreign countries. Already French and English companies are developing the airplane as a cargo carrier in South...
...members of the Union and other specially invited guests are invited to attend this lecture. Membership cards must be shown to gain admittance...