Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Republicans were delighted; the Democratic leadership was in despair. If Congressman Green's peanut amendment stayed in the bill, it meant the defeat of 90% parity. Reason: Democrats from such states as Virginia and Georgia would not vote for a farm bill that slighted the peanut. To gain time, Speaker Sam Rayburn hastily recessed the House...
...gain of 1.5 percent pushed Social Relations past Economics into fourth place with a figure of 7.9. Economics, in fifth place, dropped from 9.2 of the class of '57 to 7.4 of '58. Engineering and Applied Physics, termed Applied Science last year, climbed from 5.9 percent to 6.4 to hold sixth place...
...coarser workmanship. Martin has tried to solve this problem technically as well as artistically. Instead of transferring a preliminary drawing to the block, he does a few sketches on paper and then works primarily on the wood. As a result of greater honesty to the medium, he seems to gain in mastery of space and texture, as well as in freedom. Swinging lines and the very alive look of the "Lute Player" are characteristic qualities of his work...
...literary Fort Knox, with its invaluable treasures buried in regulations. Built and endowed (with $11.5 million) in 1930 by Oil Tycoon Henry Clay Folger to house his vast, scattered hoard of Shakespeariana, the library was run almost like an exclusive club. Only scholars known to its staffers could gain access to its books and manuscripts-after writing in advance. Even the favored few were stopped by the silken rope, had to sit on a bench until a staff member came to escort them to the books. As a result, days went by without a single visitor gracing the reading room...
FRENCH ECONOMIC GAINS are pushing the Paris stock market ahead at an even faster clip than the U.S. bull market, largely because Frenchmen who once sent their funds abroad are now investing at home. Stocks on the Paris Bourse are 240% above the 1949 average, with a $2.3 billion gain since 1952; the averages climbed by 60% last year alone, have soared another 22% in 1955's first four months...