Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, shows an increase of 40 over March of last year. Every one of the fields in this grouping records a substantial increase over the figures for the Class of '41. History, with a rise from 82 to 103, shows the largest gain of any field. Government has 12 more concentrators, going from...
Many individual departments made, gains. Geological Science doubled its concentrators in an increase from 13 to 26. With a slight increase of two men, Romance Languages made the only gain in Modern Languages. Chemistry, Physics, and Music showed substantial increases as well...
...Council Constitution formerly told them to do. They voted yesterday instead--voted to lock the doors of their polls for this year and perhaps for many years. Briefly, the results are amazing. Pre-election reasoning indicated otherwise: pointed to the belief that, in one swift coup, the Council would gain positive endorsement of its stand for elections and would silence the gnawing criticism which has sporadically arisen in the last few years...
Last week Detroit lost, and Copenhagen was about to gain a rare and spectacular British diplomatic hostess. Leslie C. Hughes-Hallett, British consul in Detroit, sailed from Manhattan to become consul general at Copenhagen. Of greater interest was the fact that Consul Hughes-Hallett was taking along his blue-eyed, dark-haired wife, Violet Holmes-Tidy Hughes-Hallett. She likes snakes and rats...
...addition to the discount, Campbell stands to gain even more under CBS's summer policy, announced officially last week although it had been a CBS selling point for a year or so. Radio programs canceling for the summer usually take the chance of losing their old spot on the air come fall. NBC is still hard-boiled on this point, but CBS now permits advertisers "brief hiatuses during the summer . . . without forfeiture of time." A summer vacation on all Campbell shows would bring its savings to about...