Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tossed to the audience disguises its age. Learning that their father is chasing and being chased by a blonde adventuress (Binnre Barnes) in New York, the three sisters, unbeknown to their broken-hearted, divorced mother, take ship for America to make a counter-attack against the "enemy." They gain their first point when "Penny" interrupts every attempt of their papa's "Precious" to talk at luncheon; later "Penny" drags her bed across the floor while the adventuress is singing (?) below, thus winning a second objective. "Precious" and her simpering mother (Alice Brady) try to persuade the easy-going father...
...announced: "The prevalence of influenza at present is very similar to that frequently experienced at this season of the year." Indianapolis factories and offices were crippled by workers' absences, but it was not felt that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully echoed Seattle, "but a great many common colds." Denver, without announcing the number of influenza cases, told school children that they would have...
...last week, gross box-office receipts for the cinema industry in 1936 were a billion dollars, $250,000,000 more than last year. Weekly theatre attendance was 81,000,000-compared to 71,000,000 in 1935, 54,000,000 in 1933. Main reasons for the industry's gain were undoubtedly increased prosperity and better pictures. A contributing reason was undoubtedly "Bank Night"-currently a weekly fiesta at 5,000 of the 15,000 active U. S. cinema theatres...
...point SEC did gain a victory. When Otis bought the Murray Ohio stock originally, the big stockholders it bought from agreed not to dump any of their remaining shares on the market for a certain length of time, a fact which was not stated in the offering prospectus. Bullish for the broker though such a statement would have been, the Court held that it should have been published, ordered that the like be published in future. Said the Otis lawyers last week: "The question as to what information should be contained in the prospectus has been the subject...
...well as those that rebelled, with Bermuda, Newfoundland, the Barbadoes receiving almost as much attention as the ones that eventually became the original 13 States. If some U. S. heroes seem to shrink in stature as a result, and some familiar English enemies to disappear entirely, the net gain is a dense, panoramic picture of a century of struggle, revealing how confused the Founding Fathers were in their aims and intentions, how superficial and misleading most accounts of their lives and heritage...