Word: gaine
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...compound of dreamer and practical masterbuilder which hoists Gropius to his commanding position. Colleagues may gain his grasp of industrial civilization's new demands upon the architect, but they are not likely to catch up to the stride of his dynamic evolving personal philosophy. To the older elements in the profession everything he stands for is still poison: these are men who are aware that the New Architecture steadily gains ground but who are doggedly wed to pat formulas and the Roman column...
...automobile industries, is a timely illustration of the fact that a strong management and a strong union hesitate to tangle, and will employ attrition only when other measures fail to secure accord; while if one party is materially weaker, it must use every weapon at its command to gain a fair contract. Congress could make no sadder error than to become impatient and destroy the balance that labor and management seem to have hit upon after years of trial and error...
Parzen stressed that "It's the College student whom we are trying to serve. No matter how much he learns about world affairs from his regular studies, he is presumptuous in thinking that he can gain nothing from exposure to fresh viewpoints...
Wait More, Make More. The Dominion's overall rent bill will not go up 10%, after all. Landlords are dissatisfied because they must offer a two-year lease to gain the extra revenue. Believing that all controls will be off in less than two years, many landlords are gambling on no increase now, bigger returns later...
Like the banker he had been, he figured that safety pays off in the cash register. Said he: "If we take a chance and send a plane from Chicago to New York and it gets through, we gain $3,000 in revenue. If it cracks up, it costs us $1,000,000. All humanitarian principles aside, who'd gamble with the odds a million to three thousand against...