Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...must be obeyed. A free and democratic government is that which affords opportunity to the people to strike out or change what seems to them an unjust law. Ours is such a government; if enough people can be persuaded to their side, the miners will eventually gain their point without violence through proper legislation...
...troops to Russia to crush decisively the Bolshevist forces, Dr. Frankfurter emphatically replied: "Crush the Bolshevists? It is impossible. And further, it is the very presence of our soldiers in Russia which gives the Bolshevists their power. The plea that they are fighting against a foreign invader serves to gain the sympathy of the people...
...gain of the last few days is one principally to the efforts of about a dozen of the seventy teams that are operating in this locality. The totals as they new stand at the beginning of the sixth week are as follows: Boston. $3,622.494 New York, 3,281.808 Outside, 2,175.828 Total...
...place from Lewis in the last mile of the race. F. G. Bemis '22 ran splendidly, working up from the last group to eighth place. Coach Farrell, in speaking of the race, said that the team had showed great improvement since last Saturday, and if they made a corresponding gain in the coming race they would give Yale a close struggle for the honors next Saturday at New Haven. The team, he explained, has still a tendency to run too hard in the first of the race, not conserving their strength for the final mile...
...lies in holding up the hands of the labor conservatives, not necessarily by servile acquiescence in their views, but at least by a patient and sympathetic co-operation through which alone a satisfactory compromise can in the end be effected. If we are agreed on principle, we lose that gain which is half the battle by throwing over as worthless the propositions of any party to the problem. D. T. EATON...