Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forced M.I.T. to adopt a new attitude towards the amount of education required for professional scientific competence. While some men can be successful with only a Bachelor's degree, the administration feels more and more advanced training is necessary to keep up with technological change. The undergraduate will gain a broad background of scientific training, but only a graduate student will be able to develop these fundamentals into unique skills and ideas...
Playwright Robert Anderson '39, director Garson Kanin, and set designer Donald P. Oenslager '23 said that a formal theatre would enable undergraduates to gain valuable stage experience while still in College. Anderson cautioned, however, that "too much emphasis should not be placed on the physical setup...
Last week the Gallup poll announced a remarkable answer to that question. Pitting Eisenhower against Stevenson in 13 Southern states,* Gallup found that 56% like Ike. 40% are for Stevenson and 4% are undecided. Eisenhower's percentage was a big gain over his vote in 1952. It was also well above the biggest popular vote that a G.O.P. candidate for President ever got in the South: Herbert Hoover's 52% over Al Smith...
...until 10:18 a.m., for example, did U.S. Steel open on a huge block of 25,000 shares, up 3 5/8 at 55½; Du Pont jumped six points on a block of 4,000 shares. By the close the Dow-Jones industrial average was up to 470.64, a gain of 4.92 points...
...about $9 billion from the comparable period of the year before. New orders are also growing, reached $29.3 billion in December, the highest point since the statistics were first compiled in 1948. At the last official count unfilled orders for all types of machinery stood at $15.6 billion, a gain of better than $2 billion in a year. In December alone machine tool orders came to $157 million, up 50% in two months...