Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first mistakes, Eugene Meyer, known affectionately to his staff as "Butch," worked wonders. He built a national bureau to cover the Government, patterned after the Washington bureaus of the big Manhattan dailies. He developed an editorial page that, under Felix Morley, began at once to show insight and vigor, gain national prestige. By 1946, circulation had more than trebeled...
...giving Poujade the cover story, TIME is helping an illiterate opportunist to gain more strength and popularity and, therefore, more seats at a future election in France. If you have run out of cover people, why not switch to animals? I'd take Nashua instead of Poujade any time...
...strikers lost $75 million in pay, more than twice the $33 million they will gain in wage and benefit increases during the next five-year contract. At this rate, it will take them more than ten years to make up in wage increases what they lost in 156 days of striking. Said a Sharon, Pa. worker: "It was an awful long wait. I lost track of the days, nothing but bad, all running together. You couldn't plan or look forward to anything. You didn't dare buy or owe. I hope...
Since the moment is not the essential of only one picture, the series is able to gain meaning from the shifting viewpoints, all similar and all of similar subjects. The photographs do not merely record unusual faces of unusual expressions. Rather, Evans has succeeded in taking the common man on the common man's transportation and giving him unusual depth...
...effects of a powerful threequarter line may be negated, however, if the forwards do not combine well enough to gain regular control of the ball. New York has the advantage of a shakedown game played last Saturday in two inches of snow, but the Crimson needs a few good wins to impress the boys in California...