Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pages (inside of back cover, July 26). This is my suggestion: that, good though those advertisements are, they are plainly written by some one that has not quite caught TIME style, though that has been his effort. They sound (to me) jerky and adjective-ridden and might gain force if smoothed out as your reading text is smooth. . . . GEORGE BUNBURY...
...Sweringens' previous tactics had been to gain control of the directorate of the constituent lines and to force approval of the mergers. The minority stockholders, especially of the Chesapeake & Ohio, did not like that. Neither did the Interstate Commerce Commission, which forbade the merger last spring (TiME, March...
...multiplied speed of Western Union's new cable, 2,500 letters a minute, is to result from an improvement achieved in the cable itself after long experimenting to gain speed by improving sending and receiving instruments. Around the copper conductor of the 3,800-mile strand is wound a continuous strip of "permalloy" ribbon, an alloy of iron and nickel which conducts current very freely, permitting signals to be sent close together...
After the recent "freak" Canadian parliamentary election at which 116 Conservatives, 101 Liberals and 25 Progressives (TIME, Jan. 18) were returned, the Canadian House of Commons became little more than a cockpit in which Liberals and Conservatives heckled each other interminably and fought to gain the support of as many Progressives as possible...
Great and lasting achievements are not built on Persian rugs, nor do dreams completely crystalize into accomplishment in well furnished apartments. The average citizen is much too possessed of comfort. Nor is it difficult to gain. One has but to stay long enough with a large corporation or get high enough in a small one; one has but to write down to the public--and success drops comfortable laurels on brows never wet with anything but delightfully refreshing showers...