Word: regain
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...danger. A few days after sailing the first of the icebergs was met. These icebergs are over a year old, coming down from Greenland a year ago, and, although growing smaller in the warmer water, many of them will be carried back to the north and will regain their size. The "Seneca" also encountered miles of "slop" ice-fields, the largest being nine miles square...
...throne between the twin princes Louis and Ferdinand. The first act is laid in the Grand Salon of the Pre Catalan restaurant in Paris. It is here that Prince Ferdinand, believed to be dead, discovers, while travelling incognito that his half-witted brother Louis is plotting to regain the throne from which his countrymen have banished him. Both princes lack the money wherewith to contest their rights. Prince Louis has an accomplice, Antonio Spinorelli, Grand Master of the International Brotherhood of Fists, who conceives the plan of marrying Louis to a rich American heiress, Isabelle Rankin, whose wealth shall support...
...University debaters have been practicing regularly for a month under the direction of Sidney Curtis '05, and Arthur Ballantine '04. With graduate students eligible this year, the University teams expect to regain their supremacy, lost last year by double defeat...
Professor Sanger had been in ill-health for some time and last year suffered from an attack of nervous prostration. He went to Europe seeking to regain his health, but had not been there more than a month or two when he became worse, and was obliged to return to America. His health then improved and last fall he attempted to give Chemistry 3, but again broke down and was obliged to give...
Professor Josiah Royce of the Department of Philosophy is recovering from an attack of apoplexy, and his physicians believe that with a thorough rest he will regain his former health. Professor Royce will, however, be unable to give his courses in the University during the remainder of the academic year, and his place will be filled by another member of the Department of Philosophy. He will rest at his home on Irving street until his condition warrants his leaving Cambridge for a long and refreshing vacation...