Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russians also could pay much: trade and fishing concessions, or the return of Southern Sakhalin and the speckled Kuril Islands of Japan's northwestern shores, or the return, say, of 10,000 Japanese P.W.s still held in Soviet labor camps. And the Russians, as usual, could gain much by dangling such baubles without delivering them. Obeying Japan's new impulse to neutralism, Mamoru Shigemitsu commented that "there is need for a careful study of the sincerity of the Russian statement." Molotov's initiative, he added, was "a big step forward...
Every day he climbed into his little cage 20 feet above the foundry floor, to guide his big, metal-toting crane. His co-workers rapped their hammers on stanchions to gain his attention, then motioned what they wanted him to do. The incoming relief operator scrawled necessary messages on the crane walls. At teatime, while the others horsed around, Hewitt sat alone in his crane...
Sharhelders of the alumni-controlled Massachusetts Telecasters, Inc., were reluctant to comment last night on what effect evidence that John Fox '29 may not actually own the Boston Post might have on their case to gain control of the still-unassigned channel five. The Post is one of four organizations battling the alumni group for the television channel...
Fourth, in the course of his study a student should gain a considerable knowledge of business. He should esquire a sizable body of facts about business and an understanding of the vocabulary of business. For example, he will get a basic knowledge of accounting, which in many respects is a language of finance. Furthermore, the cases be considers often are about key problems in business. Yet at the Harvard Business School the acquisition of substantive knowledge about business is an objective definitely secondary to the object of developing effectiveness in constructive thinking. In line with this view, the number...
...what work in the various aspects of business will be like and to reduce the chance of false starts in lines that are unproductive. For many men graduate study opens up career opportunities that are better than those available to them just out of college. The able man can gain something from the reputation of the alumni and the School in being considered for excellent opportunities...