Word: gain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems less tense than he was, less eager for adventures, more mindful of mending fences and improving the economy at home. The fact that the most pervasive propaganda weapon in the Middle East, Nasser's Cairo radio, now outspokenly attacks the Communists in the Middle East is a gain...
...nutrition by supplying a counterfeit purine. Physicians treating acute leukemia now ring the changes on these, using one until it loses its effect, then switching to another, sometimes back to the first. No child victims of acute leukemia have yet been saved, but Dr. Farber can report a heartening gain. A dozen years ago, young leukemia patients lived an average of only three or four months, mostly in misery, after their disease was diagnosed. Now the average is at least a year; some live two or three years, and a few still longer. During their remissions the children appear healthy...
...economic indicators that have the biggest personal impact on the U.S. workingman-employment, work week and salaries-are steadily moving upward. Last week the Labor Department reported that employment in June climbed to 67,342,000. the highest level in U.S. history and a gain of 4,600,000 since February...
...Harvard-Radcliffe segment of the Summer School showed the larger gain, and there was a big gain in those attending the School of Education...
Kishi would need all his aplomb in the coming month as he tours eleven countries in Europe and the Americas. His object : to gain face for his countrymen, who morbidly nurse a national feeling that Japan, while growing economically strong, is still "the orphan of Asia," disliked by its neighbors, ignored or discounted by the West. Sensitive Japanese are already wincing at the journalists' jeers in England at the discovery that a London public relations firm had been hired to boost the Premier's stock there. Other Japanese fear a disaster like the visit to London of Foreign...