Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...certainly a marvel of political duplicity. By masquerading a television campaign program by Vice-President Nixon as a press conference designed to increase collegiate interest in politics, the Republicans have furthered their interests doubly. Not only do they achieve the usual effects of ordinary television, but they also gain the advantage of seeming to dispense absolute truth, in league with the legions of education...
...those close to Ivy football know that while there may not be athletic scholarships as such, it is only the rare high school star who cannot gain a scholarship to at least one of the schools in the League. For in the closed rooms of the Admissions offices, it is known that he stands a pretty good chance of getting a scholarship ahead of Editor Jones or even Shotstop Jones...
...fact, the League itself is going all out to gain the most publicity possible. While the member schools' press boxes may lack the gaudiness and air-conditioning and heat of the Big Ten, the League's public relations departments have been doing a very strong job. At the beginning of the season, an interesting brochure with a color cover was distributed by the league to the press. It contained descriptions of every team, as well as the league records, even though this is "officially" the first season...
Boucher and Hanlon staged a personal duel for second place after both had moved ahead of Norris and McLean at the 1 1/2 mile mark. They could not gain on Reider, but maintained a wide margin over the trailing Crimson runners. Hanlon finally overtook his teammate to place second, with Boucher third...
Raider Louis Wolfson, who parlayed a Jacksonville junkyard into a $240 million empire and attempted to gain control of giant Montgomery Ward, sounded a general retreat last week. He is getting out of Montgomery Ward and selling all his 59,000 shares (at an expected profit of about $750,000). Furthermore, he is thinking of selling the Highway Trailer Co., the Marion Power Shovel Co. and its subsidiary, the Osgood Co., all controlled by Merritt-Chapman & Scott, which Wolfson runs as chairman, president and chief stockholder (more than 157,000 out of 5,374,360 shares...