Word: regain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sound at the core, I tell you. My life work. . . . I am prepared to sacrifice all ideas of rest and recreation to help the business regain its wonted position...
...referred last week to the need of finding some way to retain the old element of solidarity in undergraduate life, which was a feature of daily chapel that meant much to many Yale men. The question is of course, how we can regain that old solidarity under conditions where the very force of numbers is at the base of the problem. In the three classes of the college there now are over 1400 men, and as things are going there will be 1500 in the near future. Thirty years ago there were 1150 men in the four classes. There...
...displaced the veteran Ellison in the outfield. Burns has not shown much punch with the stick, but his speed, both on the paths and in pursuing flies have given him an edge on the slower, though reliable, veteran, Ellison has not been able to hit this year, until he regains his batting eye, he will scarcely be able to regain his lost position. In the infield, no changes seem likely for the potent Chauneey has been doing adequate work behind the plate, and though his foul catching is notably weak, he has been throwing well, and his prowess...
Beyond all doubt our great universities have, by their very size, to a great extent lost their grip on their students. Whether or not this plan of subdivision would enable them to regain that hold on the individual student is a question for our great educators to determine. Already there are signs of a drift toward English methods in dealing with the question. The two great English Universities represent more centuries of educational evolution than most of our own have dared to contemplate. Even a generation ago, Harvard University was a compact and easily handled college, a veritable cultural unit...
...island castle of Loch Leven, Mary's charm brought her a rescuer, George Douglas, who loved her, and later, in an English prison, she was wooed by the Duke of Norfolk and pledged herself to him. These were the last despairing attempts of a doomed woman to regain her freedom, to save her life, to win a crown...