Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After MIT took the first event, the 300 yard medley relay, they lost the next five events badly, failing even to gain a second place in any of them. The Varsity squad placed successive firsts and seconds in the 220 yard free style, the 50 yard free style, diving, the 100 yard free style, and the 150 yard back stroke...
...found that airplane-sprayed 2,4-D, the chemical that kills "broad-leaved" plants while leaving grasses unharmed, did a fine job of killing sagebrush. The treatment costs a little more than $2 an acre and destroys as much as 90% of the pest. On de-brushed range, cattle gain 75% more weight per acre, and sell for twice as much as if they had to hunt grass among sagebrush...
...Christianity is opposed to the spirit that puts gain above all other principles," Mrs. Luce said, "but socialism is even worse, because it gives the state final authority over all human rights...
...meanwhile been working on his second, goal, that of "expanding laboratory facilities." By 1927 when the grounds were dedicated, eight intensive years of visiting business plants bad blossomed into almost 6,000 case studies. School researchers have kept the case stocks "active" by constantly watching and visiting business to gain not only new case situations but evidence of outdated situations as well...
...power. At Berkeley, California's owlish Coach Lynn ("Pappy") Waldorf admits that it is one of the reasons for the widening gap between football's haves and havenots. In preparation for a game, he asks his scouts three short questions: "How can we win? Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says, "We can't play the game for them...