Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students are beginning to adjust to the change. Beloit's middle class then counteracts the traditional "sophomore slump" and its dropout problem by requiring students to leave academe for a spell. All must spend at least one trimester off the campus, studying or working on their own to gain maturity, relate their studies to life. Some toil in Alaskan oilfields, others guide tours through the Statue of Liberty or work in youth centers...
Monday's market, after an 8.03 point drop the week before, made a strong try at gaining back the loss; at midday the industrials were up 7.34 points, but they fell and finished with only a 2.71-point gain for the day. On Tuesday, with 12,290,000 shares traded, the Dow managed to hold its gain; it finished 8.73 points up, and the industrial average stood at 912.97. The upsurge prompted so much eager buying on Wednesday that the New York Stock Exchange recorded its fourth busiest trading session in history. A total of 13,510,000 shares...
...arrangement seems to satisfy everybody. Kaiser, which plans to continue building its Jeeps in 32 countries, will gain additional funds for that and its other worldwide construction and manufacturing operations. Renault will concentrate on Argentina, where Italy's Fiat has been pushing hard to replace
...plays him, he comes off rather colorless. Ernest Graves' Duncan, though gray-haired, is younger than usual--which is in keeping with Colicos' Macbeth, since the two are first cousins. John Cunningham's Malcolm is crisply spoken, but too priggish for my taste; I almost regret that he does gain the throne...
Richard Mathews makes Ross surprisingly credible. His first entrance is on the run; and he kneels before King Duncan more out of exhaustion than deference. Only in the course of his lengthy report does he gain his breath, stand up, and gradually inject his words with increasing enthusiasm. Tom Aldredge's Macduff is properly honest and resolute. But when, before the climactic duel, he says, "I have no words;/My voice is in my sword," one wishes the statement were literally true, for his vocal delivery through-out the play is throaty and gargly...