Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must be tougher if we are to gain their respect and be able to work with them in the future...
Kaden, runner-up in both the foil and sabre events, quickly defeated fellow Gold Coaster Phil Villers, 3 to 0, to gain individual point honors among the House entrants with 11. Kaden's stiffest opposition came in his semi-final match, where after repeated attacks and parries, he finally overcame Bill Hooker of Kirkland, 3 to 2. Runner-up Villers triumphed over his semi-finalist opponent, John Watson of Dunster...
...chief immediate advantage for the United States in regular diplomatic relations with the Chinese would be a listening-post in Peiping, according to Schwartz. We would at least gain the contact we have with other Communist countries, he said...
...Habbaniya. If Britain could build a new "little NATO,"the bases could safely be turned over to it. The planes and men would remain largely British. But they would be there not by imposition of a "colonial" power, but as partners in mutual defense. Thus, the West would gain more solid bastion in the shifting political sands of the Middle East...
...capital gains (i.e., profits made from the sale of anything from a house or business to stocks and bonds) was first imposed in 1922, set at 12½% for gains held two years. Before that, such gains had been taxed as regular income (top bracket: 70%). Thus the principle was recognized that a gain in capital, which might take years to make, should not be taxed at the same rates as yearly income. If it were, then the man who had spent years building up his business and, in effect, deferring his capital gain from it, would be in such...