Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since any H-bomb testing by one nation is detectable by another, violations of the moratorium would be immediately evident to all the nations involved. In any case, it is doubtful if a nation would gain by breaking the moratorium, since the power of the H-bomb is so great that it appears to have reached a practical power-limit...
Though President Hill lived to see only the beginning of the process, during the past ninety years Harvard has been transformed into a great modern university. This is all gain. If President Hill seems, by hindsight, seriously to have under-estimated the future demand for universities, he was clearly right nonetheless in his conviction that Harvard had the opportunity and the capacity to become an institution of this enlarged and more serviceable kind...
Unfortunately, the President has been eager to play their game and reply politically to a message at least technically diplomatic. The worst aspect of the entire interchange is that in squabbling with Bulganin to gain a political advantage, President Eisenhower has lost sight of the H-bomb test-radiation issue itself. In order to oppose what he approaches as the combined forces of Bulganin and Stevenson, he has set himself up in an immovable, inflexible position, without bothering to give a reasoned reply to their collective arguments...
...fuel for her rapidly growing industries, needs atomic power more than the U.S. or Russia. In trying to get it as quickly as possible, British scientists have settled for a comparatively primitive reactor, which uses natural uranium for fuel and is cooled by pressurized carbon dioxide. As they gain experience, Britain's atomic engineers plan to shift to more advanced reactors...
Dartmouth quarterback Mike Brown just about exhausted his team's bag of tricks on Saturday, but it wasn't enough to gain a victory for the Big Green. A solid, hard-charging Crimson line made the difference as the varsity, never behind, fought to a 28-21 victory before 28,500 fans...