Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United Community Campaigns of America : "It's not something you can put your finger on. Wherever there's a situation which leads a community to focus on one objective and makes it work together to achieve it, you can't help but score a gain in community spirit. If Seattle is now doing its job for libraries and civic centers and other aspects of a dynamic city, it's in a large measure because it has learned to do it for children's homes and family agencies and clinics...
...inexorable wisdom of State Street and the Yard, however, the colony idea has been peremanently tabled, no doubt as an extreme breach of propriety. Meanwhile another proposal has been made to the University which should gain much more serious consideration. Sponsored by the Fund for the Advancement of Education, this more plausible suggestion would found a new regional college from the regular faculties of several existing institutions, ranging in size and and character from a small women's college to universities like Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. The purpose of the plan would be to experiment with new educational ideas...
Candidates for the photo board gain proficiency in taking pictures and in darkroom work. No previous experience is required...
...behind Russia in the winter Olympics without any noticeably ill effects. Indeed, it seems unlikely that many countries would assume from an American Olympic loss that the U.S. is an ineffective world leader. If American officials would take the lead in ignoring the team aspects, the U.S. might even gain a propaganda victory of sorts, for the smaller countries would feel better, and America would be taking a significant step in promoting world brotherhood...
...painting, palazzo and cathedral, but from the hard surfaces of the Venetian mind as well. It was typical of the Venetians to sit out the first three Crusades except as close-bargaining transport agents. How explain the paradox, asks Author McCarthy, of "a commercial people who lived solely for gain-how could they create a city of fantasy, lovely as a dream or a fairy tale?" Her answer is as tantalizing as her question: "There is no contradiction, once you stop to think what images of beauty arise from fairy tales. They are images of money. Gold, caskets of gold...