Word: gain
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Japan no doubt could use a more experienced economic administrator than Douglas MacArthur is. But such a gain might be offset by the loss of a leader who has shown that he can be a real inspiration for the muddled Japanese people...
...Teaching Fellows will direct a new program designed to increase the effectiveness of first-year law instruction by aiding beginning students to gain a better grasp of basic legal processes and by improving their methods of study...
...step by step, since time began, I see the steady gain...
Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...
Pleasant Thoughts. International Business Machines Corp.'s spry old President Thomas J. Watson, whose favorite motto is "Think!", gave his stockholders something pleasant to think about: a 16% gain in profits, to $7.8 million. Caterpillar Tractor Co., cashing in on long-deferred roadbuilding, bulldozed its own net from $2.9 million to $4.7 million-a gain...