Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Despite Smith's win, Penn State was only able to gain fifth place in the team standings as Manhattan broke Michigan State's five year monopoly on the championship. Following Manhattan's low of 43 points came Michigan State, Pittsburgh, Alfred, Penn State, Syracuse, Cornell, Maine, Yale, Princeton, and Harvard. Seventeen colleges in all competed with 125 representatives...
Speaking as "a citizen of New York" from his "own fireside" at Hyde Park he broadcast a pre-election appeal. Its theme was: "Social or economic gain made by one administration may and often does evaporate into thin air under the next. . . . We have to have reasonable continuity in liberal government to get permanent results. . . .* If American democracy ceases to move forward as a living force, seeking day and night by peaceful means to better the lot of our citizens, fascism and communism aided, unconsciously perhaps, by old-line Tory Republicanism will grow in strength...
First elections for municipal councillors "since Munich" were held last week throughout England and Wales. There was no landslide either way but the Conservative Party made a quiet net gain of 20 seats, mainly at the expense of the Labor Party which suffered a net loss of 17 seats. The Liberals lost two seats, Independents...
Sixty years ago, when the revolutionary ideas of Lister and Pasteur were beginning to gain credence, there was no medial school in the U. S. worthy of the name. American students went abroad to do research, learn surgical and laboratory technique. In 1883 Daniel Coit Gilman, head of Johns Hopkins University, heartened by a $3,228,000 bequest from the Quaker founder of the school, began scouting for distinguished professors who would form the nucleus of a great U. S. medical faculty...
...whole played in a listless and loggy fashion. Their sustained drives were practically negligible. Defensively on the ground they held the visitors to 34 yards, but in the air, both offensively and on the defense, the Crimson were distinctly odorous. They tried 15 forwards and completed two for a gain of less than 30 yards, while their opponents completed eight out of 21 aerials and made 152 yards by them...