Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American college are more closely assimilated to those of the High School than to those of the Junior and Senior years of college. I believe, therefore, that were those two years of college to be added to the four years of high school, there would be a gain all around. Many boys and girls who want and deserve a college education but who cannot afford to go to the distant college or state university would get a junior college education. Moreover they would get a better college education for the best teachers of the high schools...
Manufacturing. Production in all industries, considered as a whole, showed a gain of 7%, even as compared with the highly prosperous year...
Railroads. "The steady gain in the volume of railroad traffic, characteristic of recent years, continued in 1925-26. The ton-mile age of freight increased nearly 8% over the preceding year, in which it had already marked a record. The constantly rising efficiency of the railroads is emphasized by the fact that this greater traffic was handled with practically no change in the number of employes...
...solemnized in a Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, under the laws of the U. S. . . . There is much evidence which runs counter to the decision. . . . That any woman of middle age, after years of married, life, should be willing to swear that her parents sold her for worldly gain, and against her will, is a scandal. . . ." He came to his evident point: "If couples who have lived years in wedlock can procure annulments merely by discovering that undue pressure in some form was used at the time of their marriage, divorce will become unnecessary...
...defended the farm bloc as a political unit. Just as onetime Governor Lowden is the potent friend of farmers in the Republican party, so is Edwin T. Meredith, Iowa farm journal publisher, onetime Secretary of Agriculture, their Democratic friend. If, by some upheaval of politics, the farm bloc should gain control of both parties, these two men might be found running for President against each other...