Word: gain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes to gain reimbursement for the $8 worth of notices that have been lost so far this year...
Watson had stated last Friday that most of the Class of 1950 men not in Houses would gain entrance when the selections are made next month...
...vote (compared with 45% two years ago). Moreover, though Perón's much-publicized candidate Father Virgilio Filippo (TIME, Feb. 16) was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, he ran well behind the others on the party ticket. Among opposition parties, the Socialists showed the greatest gain...
...they unfolded the terms of their agreement, Johnston and Wilson beamed fondly at one another. Said Wilson admiringly: "Johnston was a tougher negotiator than the Russians." Said Johnston of Socialist Wilson: "Were he in America, he would have made a great capitalist." Both parties to the deal stood to gain by it, and neither had anything to lose. In Hollywood, there were a few who called it a good deal only by comparison with the "confiscatory" 75% tax. Producer-Director Sam Wood spoke for the optimists: "Removal of the tax gives the green light on the greatest surge of production...
...thumping Tory gain of 13,000 votes had come mostly at the expense of the rapidly evaporating Liberal Party. Bennett polled so few votes-less than one-eighth of the total-that he forfeited the ?150 election deposit intended to discourage "absurd and futile" candidacies...