Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mystified," said CCA-Councillor Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29 after the meeting. "The independents can't agree, but I don't know what they'll gain by their present tactics," he added...
...housing developer for his 40 acres, but an expert advised him to wait. A few weeks later, the farmer was back with a mile-wide grin. Said he: "I just wanted you to know that I've sold my land for $7,500 an acre." California's gain was once the East's loss, but 1955's economy was big enough for everyone. In Ohio the growth was little short of phenomenal. The Cleveland area alone counted nearly $500 million in new expansion. Samples: a $31 million Union Carbide & Carbon titanium plant, the world...
Five Crimson cross-country skiers ran a slushy eight mile race at Jackson, N.H., yesterday to gain twentieth, thirty-fifth, thirty-eighth and fortieth place out of a field of 43 racers...
...maintained the traditional purpose of the school. He does not believe in selecting students solely on their intellect. 'Groton's purpose, according to him, is "to develop boys in body, mind, and spirit." Many average boys are "awfully happy here," he notes. The large number of boys who regularly gain admission to Harvard--usually about 15 from a class of 40--would seem to indicate that he has discovered a satisfactory way to run a school and to get boys into their first-choice colleges...
Still, there are a few gray spots left in the picture. Despite their 50 per cent representative gain, the Communists actually suffered a slight reduction in popular vote. Their phenomenal representative increase stems from the tangled electoral law rather than from popular strength. More important, after the first shock of the election results had worn off, Premier Faure proposed again yesterday the formation of a long-needed government of "national union," which would include all parties from Socialists to Conservatives...