Word: regain
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...took the Freshman hockey team until the second period to regain the fighting spirit which it showed in the contest with Andover last Saturday and to down the Newton High School sextet, 6-2, yesterday afternoon in the Boston Arena...
Princeton, with 14 letter-men, may well hope to regain her lost prestige. She can put on the field a team composed entirely of letter-men, consisting of Stout and Tillson or Drews, ends; Gates and Howard, tackles; hills and Crago, guards; Caldwell, center; Gibson, Legendre, and Williams in the backfield with Dinsmore, Wingate, or Caulkins at quarterback. Blessed with a surplus of good quarterback material for several years. Coach Roper will have five...
...Altman Prize of $1,000, with his Elizabeth Betts of Wortham, by whom hangs a tale. This lady was an ancestress of the artist, embalmed in the family archives as a "sad spinster of 21." She quarreled with her lover, who straightway went off to the wars. To regain his love, she made herself a most marvelous frock and went to call on his sister. Whether the strategem succeeded we are not told, but Mr. Betts, aided only by an old print, has done a most appealing portrait of the graceful maiden lady in her gown of heavy yellow silk...
...points which stood out as concrete facts: The Republic was firmly established in Coblenz, where the Provisional Government was established. Earlier in the week the Separatists were thrown out of Coblenz by men loyal to the German Reich, but were able to regain the town with the assistance of the French. Another established point is that the French and Belgians actively supported Separatist troops by preventing the loyalist element from attacking them. For the rest, towns are won and lost every day, but as the occupational troops back the Separatists, they are naturally able to hold the positions...
...Long Island City, Harry Wills, heavy black boxer, spent most of two rounds waiting for hulking Homer Smith to regain a vertical position. Every 40 seconds for 326 seconds Smith took refuge upon the floor from the blows of the Black Panther. Between seconds 316 and 326 he could not bear to get up, was declared unconscious...