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Word: regains (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trailing 20 to 15 at the half, the Puritans managed to regain the lead early in the third period, only to lose it again after Joe Flynn, high scorer for the winners with 12 points, followed two foul shots with a layup and a one-armed push shot from the keyhole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Funsters Capture First Place In Intramural Court Finale | 3/13/1948 | See Source »

...revitalization of Protestantism, the first thing needed, says Theologian Niebuhr, is a return to theology: "Theology is one of the conduits of faith without which the water which rises in the springs of Evangelicalism runs into the sand." Also needed is "an adequate liturgy. . . . American Protestantism cannot regain its spiritual vitality without seeking for a better synthesis between religious spontaneity and religious tradition and discipline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Is Protestantism Slipping? | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Stunned by a 45 to 36 loss to a classy University of Connecticut quintet, the jayvee five will attempt to regain its winning ways tonight when its entertains the Jumbo Freshmen on the Indoor Athletic Building floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jayvee and Yardling Teams Play on Three Fronts Today | 1/14/1948 | See Source »

...entire Greek Army now consists of only a little more than nine divisions. General Chamberlin, who was Douglas MacArthur's wartime operations officer, found that even under the most favorable conditions it would take the Army a year to regain mastery of northern Greece, which is at the mercy of the guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Report from Greece | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...economic relations with all countries . . . beginning with the U.S. and Britain. . . . Cooperation between different economic systems is possible. If, however, they do not want to improve their relations with the Soviet Union, we shall have to do without them. We shall be able to carry on ... until they regain their reason and understand that cooperation between nations is necessary. . . . We can wait. We are a patient people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Troubled Nights | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

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