Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coffin also made clear that only those with an interest in Christianity could gain any great value from it. "It is the unique prerogative of Christ to open for us the door to eternal life," were his words on the point...
Justice Reed remarked on the advantageous setting of this student conference, carried forward by the daily publications of three of the nation's leading universities. These colleges make possible what the Justice termed "a broad, general knowledge of economic and political developments, which enables one to gain the greatest benefit from this mingling of national figures and college undergraduates...
...that an organization like the Traffic Research Bureau which is directly concerned with the public welfare should function as efficiently as possible. If Yale and New Haven can offer more adequate facilities, and the migration indicates that they can, this object is better attained. Undoubtedly, one important gain is closer proximity to New York City, where several of the Bureau's directors do much of their work, and the newspapers of which have greater publicity value than do Boston's Regrets there must certainly be in Harvard, but mutterings of foul play or infidelity on the part of the Bureau...
...districts that elected Democratic Representatives did so by 5% majorities or less and it is these districts which can be principally expected to enlarge Joe Martin's herd. He does not plan to lose any of his present Congressmen. He hopes to gain six seats in New England (two each in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut). Gallup Poll gives the G. O. P. 39 new seats in the Central States. Joe Martin is currently counting on only 22, with ten from Ohio where Republicans anticipate defeating Governor Davey. The Committee expects eight new Congressmen from the corn & wheat belt...
Mazo de la Roche's Jalna, novels are second-rate Forsyte Saga, gain nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says...