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Word: regain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...predecessor. If a sufficient numbers of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give the Association one more trial the price of board will undoubtedly be kept at a reasonable figures the fare will be improved and the commons will regain many of its pristine glories. It rests however entirely with the students to restore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eating Question in College Caused Trouble as Early as 1876 Memorial Hall Food Failed to Satisfy Students | 11/27/1928 | See Source »

...late famed Alexander Graham Bell, whose wife was deaf. It was while experimenting on sound-amplification to aid the deaf that Dr. Bell invented the telephone, in 1876. One Jeanie Lippitt, now Mrs. William B. Weeden of Providence, R. I., was the first U. S. deaf-mute child to regain speech by the lipreading method...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Coolidge Fund | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...duplication discussed. Will Comba and Pennock be able to play, and will Yankee slugging break through Cardinal pitching? Such are the questions that will animate barber shop debate, for the next few days and cause thousands of fans to storm the gates, ruin their hats and larynxes and regain their youth in a grand orgy of sport mania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HICKORY CROWN | 10/4/1928 | See Source »

...Taylor, now a potent U. S. Steel executive.* Not until 1917 was the contract wrested away from the Mercantile Corp. In that year, the Middle West Supply Co. submitted low bid. And as this contract is not transferable, the only way for the Mercantile Corp. and Stockholder Taylor to regain it was to buy the Middle West Supply Co. This they did. They were not again disturbed in its possession until last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Government Contract | 10/1/1928 | See Source »

George Crawford ocC. and T. W. Gilligan '31, are the other leading contenders for the quarterback position. Crawford has been playing with the ineligibles for the past three years and it is a question with him even more than with Putnam as to whether he can regain the form which made him a star performer on his St. Mark's and Freshman elevens. Crawford is at present out with an injury, but he will doubtless see much service in the directing role before the season is over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINING THEM UP | 9/29/1928 | See Source »

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