Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...most exciting race of the evening was the two-mile run, in which O. F. Hedlund, B. A. A. finally managed to gain one lap on all the runners, winning in 9 minutes and 34 seconds, with Weeks of the Irish American second and Cook of M. I. T. third...
...play of ideas, based on the ever new subject of the dual standard. It is as good as many undergraduate plays; indeed, it is better than most. If the climaxes were at times less sudden and the dialogue a little more flexible, the work would gain...
...university registration statistics, as announced in the university catalogue, just publshed, show that at present, there are 3,268 students in Yale. Nineteen countries and 52 states and territories are represented. The total number of officers in the university is 581, a gain of 42 over last year. These members of the faculty include 113 professors, 89 assistant professors, 145 instructors and lecturers, 90 assistants in instruction and 124 assistants in administration...
...members of the CRIMSON team wish to express their gratitude to the donors of the cup for the substantial stimulant which they have administered for the scientific advancement of hockey. To Mr. Barron especially are we grateful for we realize that he has everything to lose and nothing to gain. However, we admire a good loser and will say unqualifiedly that all the members of the board of our foolish contemporary are good losers. It is merely the adaptation of that old adage that practice makes perfect...
British labor has learned from the great railway strike and the nation-wide coal strike of recent years, that a mere strike for higher wages, even where successful, confers no lasting gain on the working class, since the coal operators and the railway managers promptly raise rates and prices to several times the amount of the increase. The present aim of the working class is to bring all its influence, by striking and by political pressure on Parliament, to bear on the nationalization of coal mines and railways. Public ownership of tramways in London, as a first step, has been...