Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week against Dartmouth Szaro sparkled. He averaged 8.2 yards per run for the twelve times he carried the ball. He scored twice--one on a 58-yard scramble--kicked two points after, and caught the only pass thrown to him for a 12 yard gain...
...Goodrich Co. reported that sales for the quarter dropped 6% to $243,372,000 and earnings increased a bare 2.9% to $11,642,000, even including the gain from sale of some British holdings. Goodrich's trouble was an 86-day strike that hit major rubber companies earlier this year. The strike held up deliveries to customers and resulted in wage increases that have so far not been compensated for by the price increases that Goodrich and other companies in the industry instituted after the strike was settled...
...recent years the Harvard-Dartmouth rivalry has become an increasingly fierce battle of psychology, with each side trying to gain a pre-game advantage...
...Benson & Hedges, the first two brands to turn to the super-king size, had only 2% of total cigarette sales at the beginning of this year. Now, 20 different 100-mm brands, backed by heavy advertising have almost 15% of the market, or $1 billion worth. Much of the gain came at the expense of 85-mm. filters...
Tragicomic Figure. The Manor, written between 1953 and 1955 but now appearing for the first time in English, could be the breakthrough book to gain Singer the wider audience he deserves. Like all of his fiction (The Magician of Lublin, Gimpel the Fool), this work is a subtle form of autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois...