Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governors, 27 were Democrats and 21 were Republicans before the election. Of the 30 state houses contested this year, 14 were Democratic and 16 Republican. The Republicans dumped Democrats in West Virginia. Ohio and New Mexico; the Democrats routed Republicans in Massachusetts. Iowa. Kansas, Oregon and Washington. Net Democratic gain: one. Still undecided at week's end: Rhode Island...
...railroads, factories and mines were at a standstill, the city of Budapest without light, heat, transport, communications or food, with thousands of unburied dead lying in its rubble-filled streets and fires burning in hundreds of buildings. At week's end, in a desperate attempt to gain popular support Janos Kadar went to the length of consulting deposed Premier Imre Nagy...
Generous Juries. The industry loss stemmed from the gain in highway accidents, which so far in 1956 added up to 8% more fatalities, 5% to 10% more accidents. But the accident increase only started the process; it is what happens after the accident that has caused most of the skyrocketing costs. The price of repairing battered cars and compensating maimed humans has shot up; claims now cost an average 41% more to settle than they did five years ago. A smashed fender that once could be replaced by a simple, curved piece of metal now involves large molded panels with...
Both teams are struggling to gain third place in the Ivy League standings. In the Harvard-Brown series that dates back to 1893, Harvard leads with 42 wins, 10 losses, and two ties. In the last four games, the Harvards have won only...
...storekeeper has no definite ideas for the future, but plans to teach the art even if unable to secure the sponsorship of a university. Whatever his success, it is probable that the quiet mystic will continue to gain insights into the universal order. At this very moment, he has drawn up a list of predictions "too frightening to reveal...