Word: gained
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Although the Crimson sextet is now a favorite to gain one of the two Eastern bids for the NCAA Tourney on March 10-12, the final Committee decisions will still rest on the three contenders' remaining games...
...Costly Promise. The protectionist forces moved quickly to consolidate their gain. Ohio's Republican Representative Clarence Brown moved that the bill be left wide open to amendment. But Speaker Rayburn stemmed the tide. He got up from his chair, walked down the steps to the House well, and standing ramrod straight, spoke into the microphone. Said he: "Only once in the history of the House, in 42 years in my memory, has a bill of this kind and character been considered except under a closed rule . . . So as an old friend to all of you, as a lover...
...constitution-ignoring the fact that the intent in both cases was for the national government to take over, not a municipality. Communists uttered cheers and huzzahs, the right-wing Socialists passed a resolution of approval, and Tuscany's industrialists, who hate La Pira, denounced him. La Pira might gain more popularity, they sputtered, but he had achieved it by adding one more uneconomic industry to the government tax burden, a practice already too widespread in Italy. The ponderous Christian Democratic Party, embarrassed by La Pira's act, decided it had best not publicly disapprove it. Said Milan...
...Wriston proposal calls for an expenditure of two million dollars a year for approximately 750 scholarship grants, that figure is economical compared to the sum that would be required to establish and maintain a separate Foreign Service Academy. The State Department has held that prospective Foreign Service officers can gain as adequate a preparation for a diplomatic career in any of the nation's accredited college as they could in an academy of their own. A scholarship program would tie the Service more firmly to the colleges, with advantages for both, instead to isolating diplomatic training from other areas...
...only to students entering the junior year in college, qualified seniors as well might receive one-year grants. And if a State Department agency is to advise the scholarship holders on their course program, as the Committee suggests, that supervision should be mild enough to allow these students to gain the full educational benefits of their college years. Flexibility should be the keynote of the system. But whatever the details, the State Department should seek authorization for a scholarship program in this session of Congress...