Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson's erratic offense looked slow and confused in the first half as the team's seasonal high scorer, Ike Canty, failed even to attempt a field goal. Later in the game, after a defensive change had slowed down Brown's attack, a Crimson quintet of substitutes managed to gain a slight edge over the Bruin reserves, but the 17 point deficit at the time could not be overcome...
Between such extremes are a number of highly respectable performances. The wins over Cornell and Penn showed that if the squad can gain consistently it can look forward to more than the usual two or three Ivy League wins per season. The victories over two less impressive foes--Amherst and Northeastern--demonstrated the team's ability to overcome a half-time deficit...
...grant followed an earlier unsuccessful attempt to gain Student Council support for the organization. The Key's plea was denied last fall, Larson said, on the grounds that the Council could not support another undergraduate organization and that the present Council treasury could not take on extra burdens...
...William E. Robinson concedes that the world's biggest soft-drink company is a one-product outfit "in a sea of multiproduct enterprises," and that his chemists are tinkering with other flavors. While 1955 sales topped all records, with profits of $28 million, Coke's rate of gain in the booming home market was less than half the industry's overall increase...
...Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it is no great revelation that private interests seeking public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above...