Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Democrats' Danger is not yet acute-but the possibilities of danger are. The latest political analyses from all over the U.S. show that the Republicans are just about sure of a gain of 21 seats in the House, are running neck-&-neck for another 20-odd seats. If the Gallup poll trend should continue, the Republicans might conceivably win the House-the Speakership and the right to take over the chairmanships of all committees*. But for control they must win 52 seats. The possibility is there, but it is not a probability for the Republicans in Congress have...
Mohamed Ali Jinnah, Moslem League president, played the British against the Hindu-dominated Congress party to gain power for himself and his vague plan of a separate Moslem state. The British pointed to Jinnah's intransigence as an example of clashing Hindu-Moslem aspirations. It gave point to the British claim that Indian nationalists must unite before independence (preferably dominionhood within the Empire) will be granted. But efforts to promote a national wartime government were balked by the British Raj's refusal to allow any dealings with the jailed Gandhi...
Most of us are convinced by now that we're in this war for keeps. If we would gain a fuller realization of what the battle has meant to others, to those who have borne the brunt of the attack that we may be called upon to face, then we owe it to ourselves to see "Moscow Strikes Back...
Sweden's conservative press reasoned fairly that the Communists won only 42 out of 1,520 council seats (a gain of 16). The real victors of the elections had been the Farmers, who gained 36 seats and now held 212. Prime Minister Hansson's safe Social Democrats still held 831 seats-an absolute majority. Even the anything-but-pro-Bolshevik Helsinki radio called Communist gains in Sweden "moderate and in no way surprising...
Harvard Penn Points Scored 7 19 First Downs 15 9 Gain by Rushing 183 230 Loss by Rushing 34 7 F. P. Attempted 21 11 F. P. Completed 8 1 Gain by F. P. 114 12 F. P. Intercepted by 0 1 Gain by Intercepted Passes 0 29 Number Punts 7 11 Distance Punts (from scrimmage line) 214 411 Average Punts 30 37 Runback of Punts 51 2 Own Punts Blocked 0 0 Number Penalties 0 14 Yards Penalized...