Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green squad, with six lettermen back from last year and with only one veteran lost by last spring's graduation, appears to be a strong and fast aggregation with good chances of capturing the illusive League title. The Indians have gotten off to a good start in their first two contests of the year. Last Saturday night they opened the season with a 34-30 victory over the Crimson Independents and Wednesday they went to Burlington, Vt., to gain a 33-23 win from the Vermont Catamounts, who had previously defeated McGill...
...fraternity candidates waited, the reporter was summoned to the dressing room. There, while selecting his necktie, and between dashes to the shower-room, with the air of a much interviewed man he replied to the reporter's questions. "Mary Brian" said he, "is the actress with whom I have gotten the most enjoyment from acting." Buddy avowed a preference for the piano above all other instruments which he plays. When asked what he thought of the Harvard indifference, he replied that his audiences in Boston had been very kind to him. "We were a bit afraid to come here...
...grave because the degree it gives has become a touchstone for academic advancement, an economic necessity for anyone who wishes to teach. Hence the minds of students all over the country are entrusted to men who, if not actually given false standards by the Ph.D. training, have at least gotten nothing from it but a mass of unleavened erudition. It is not only an unreasonable and exacting anachronism in itself, but a drag on all American education. And Harvard's School is a model for the whole system...
...Thomas White and Beaudry Leman. To give Western Canada a voice he threw in Premier John Edward Brownlee of the Province of Alberta. For two months the Commissioners have inched over the wide Canadian landscape from bank to bank (TIME, Aug. 28). Last week, after the two Scotsmen had gotten back to London for congratulation dinners, the Commission's findings were issued at Ottawa...
...Committee's criticisms of the Chase's operations in Cuba: that the Chase had gotten $40,000,000 owed to it by Cuba refunded into Cuban bonds which were then sold to the U. S. public; that the Chase had in effect unloaded on the public, since Cuba then had a deficit of $7,000,000 for the previous year (not mentioned in the prospectus for the bonds); that the Chase and its associates had taken some $3,000,000 for financing and refinancing $80,000,000 in Cuban loans...