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Word: gain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years ago, the dining halls made a profit of approximately $41,000, while last year the not gain climbed to around $49,000, Brynteson pointed out. This money, he claimed, should be used to finance a professional investigation of the dining halls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Proposes Expert Survey of All Dining Halls | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...professional journalist . . . must disappear." So must most sports news. So must big display ads, a hangover from prewar days "when capitalists tried to gain the favor of the newspapers." Papers should expand their editorial boards to check and recheck "each fact, each sentence, each word, before it is printed." Who would appoint the checkers seemed to go without saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Truth in Prague | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

...million, compared with less than $452,000 in the same period last year. The Baltimore & Ohio was up about 200% (to $16.5 million), the Erie 210% (to $9.7 million). The Pennsylvania, which lost more than $7,000,000 in the first nine months last year, made the best gain: it showed a 1948 profit of $17.5 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Extra! Extra! | 11/8/1948 | See Source »

Harvard's average gain on the ground is 4.2 yards as opposed to Princeton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Three Rivals Meet with Even Records and Statistics | 11/5/1948 | See Source »

...Catholicism. The CRIMSON must recognize the fact that support from Communists does not automatically tie one up with them. Roosevelt in 1944 was backed by the same party with equal if not greater accolades. We challenge the CRIMSON to prove that O'Brien had used his faith to gain votes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Condemns Herter | 11/2/1948 | See Source »

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