Word: gained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both frontal lobes of a man's tumorous brain, a unique case, said he. Together with the excised pieces of his brain the patient lost his memory and, reported Dr. Brickner, "control over his emotional drives, presumably because he had lost the knowledge that there was a social gain in such control. In this respect, he was like a child who has not yet learned that there is a world in which it is necessary to meet people and situations and become adapted to them...
...when our forefathers had time to feel the seasons' change in them, to loaf in the warm sunlight and to drink in life like a healthy animal. . . . Our appetites have become too heavy, our inner ear too dulled to attend any call but that of ease or gain...
Last week the Wall Street Journal tabulated statements of the first 25 U. S. corporations to report for the June quarter, found aggregate profits up 7% from the same three months of 1934. The gain for the six-month period was almost precisely the same. For a slightly smaller group which had published comparable reports in the past, June quarter profits were 40% above 1933, 102% above 1932, but still below 1931. No major steel companies had reported by last week but the rest of U. S. industry had been fairly sampled...
...Washington news, the stockmarket climbed last week to the highest level of the year. Since last March when the ma ket upswing began, the Dow-Jones average of industrial stocks has rallied with only one serious interruption (at the death of the Blue Eagle) from 96.7 to 122.6, a gain of more than...
...warpath, Ethnologist Lowie traces down all aspects of Crow war psychology, discovers an underlying philosophy in contradictory practices. Scalps were taken, but did not confer honor. A great achievement was to enter an enemy camp and cut loose a picketed horse, the exploit counting for more than the material gain. The Crow went regularly on the warpath, yet considered fighting as such disgraceful. Although killing enemies was meritorious, the Crow who first touched a helpless adversary with a magic stick received more credit within the tribe than one who won a desperate hand-to-hand encounter. Cruelty, vanity, greed, foolhardiness...