Word: regains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heads into the championship Eastern Association of Rewing Colleges Regatta, also scheduled for Lake Carnegle. In this race every lightweight crew in the country will be on hand. This means the Crimson will have to beat Columbia, Cornell, Penn, MIT, Yale--as well as Princeton--If it is to regain the Goldwaithe Cup that traditionally signifies 150-pound crew supremacy...
...change in book prices is anticipated. Publishers have not raised their prices, fearing consumer resistance, and consequently they will keep book prices up even when publishing costs go down in order to regain lost profits during the last two years, the manager of Phillips Book Store explained...
This is the story of another Alexander Hamilton, a mildly libertine Scottish physician who left Maryland in 1744 on horseback, with his Negro slave Dromo, on a trip around the colonies. He hoped thereby to regain his failing health. In four months he covered 1,624 miles by horse and by sloop, got northeast as far as what is now York, Maine and northwest as far as Schenectady. During the journey he kept an Itinerarium, which, except for a collectors' limited edition in 1907, is now published for the first time...
...Java, and before they were done, three-fourths of the globe. Then the world moved on in its circle. The long ground swell of anti-Westernism rose to a tidal wave after Pearl Harbor. It ebbed with Japan's defeat, but nowhere in Asia did the white man regain his prewar position...
...Howlin' Mad had had any idea of, the Army insisted. In the center, it had been up against the main enemy defenses. It was late jumping off only because the Marine division it was relieving had lost about 500 yards during the night, which the 27th had to regain. Finally, the Army pointed out that an all-Army board of inquiry had declared Smith's relief "not justified," and had found that Marine Smith had not known what was going...