Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm belt, where the Democrats originally had hoped to gain most in 1956, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota, Indiana and Ohio are all for Ike; Minnesota is a tossup...
...Prison Tutors Committee is co-operating with the School of education, Solicitation for the annual Red Crose- PBH blood drive will take place Monday through Friday of next week. The actual donations will be made at Memorial Hall the Week of December 3rd. so that graduate students can gain prison teaching experience. On the undergraduate level, students can work in prisons in place of writing a paper for Social Relations 169. Earlier in the term, the Social Relations Department, with the help of PBH, instituted & course based upon student work with mental patients in the Waltham Hospital...
...Council president spoke in an unsuccessful attempt to gain Council consideration of the parking problem. The parking problem was deleted from last night's agenda, eleven voting for deletion, one against and two abstaining. Abramson is expected to put the item back on next week's agenda, but killed a proposal to hold a special meeting to consider the problem...
Both Republican candidates had much to gain from Ike's brief sortie into the border state (which he lost by only 700 votes in 1952); indeed, it was Ike who urged both into the double race. For one strong candidate usually helps another, and if the Republicans could win the jumbo prize of two Kentucky seats, they would have a two-for-the-price-of-one advantage in the desperate battle to regain control of the Senate...
Tamayo's answer was to scrape his palette clean, begin using grey and white. He used color sparingly in small splashes of gold, red, lavender and cerulean blue; he switched from his usually thin paint surfaces, often done in Vinylite, to full-bodied oils thickly applied to gain surface richness. What remains the same is Tamayo's distinctive approach, which can assault the senses with all the fury of a maddened cat, shift to grotesque satire, or acquire the quality of jagged hallucination as in his Phantasma (see cut') which depicts a phosphorescent feminine specter who seems...