Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remained fairly constant in the past six months, but the voters' preference for the Tories has risen from 26% in June to 32% today. Most encouraging from the Tory standpoint is the poll's evidence of a 22% increase in Tory popularity in Ontario and a 17% gain in Quebec, good signs that the party is making its greatest headway in the two big provinces where federal election campaigns are lost...
Last week, as the case went on. U.S. Archivist Wayne C. Grover spoke up to reassure the alarmists. "No one at the National Archives," he said, "has any inclination or intention whatsoever of attempting to gain physical possession of those historical documents currently in the possession of such responsible institutions as the great university libraries and the widely respected historical associations." Yet Grover was in fact warning those collectors and dealers to whom federal documents are merely items for private profit. If the archives has its way, it will no longer permit such papers as those of Lewis and Clark...
There is also one very peculiar fact about boxers in general, they never seem to gain much weight in later life. "Maybe that's because we're just not as big as football players," says Bullitt, who has his boxing days...
...first integration problem arose from the fact that the C.I.O. remained not only intact-as planned-but grew stronger. Thirty-one of its 32 frisky industrial unions (4,600,000 members) formed the new federation's Industrial Union Department, headed by ex-C.I.O. President Reuther. To gain a voice in the new I.U.D., 38 A.F.L. unions with 2.672,000 industrial workers quickly signed up with Reuther's outfit. This move was a surprise to the top A.F.L. leaders, including Meany...
...Adenauer's foreign policy; it halted the drift toward the formation of a Communist popular front in France; and Russia's new anti-Western bellicosity might well reawaken those drowsy Europeans whose tensions had got relaxed. Against these losses had to be set what Russia hoped to gain in the uncommitted Arab-Asian lands...