Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...They must train men who can become experts in the field of management and personnel. They must have top investment analysts as well as individuals far advanced in the field of public relations. It is therefore important for the individual, regardless of what particular area he fits into, to gain a general knowledge of finance...
There is the additional hazard that the immature graduate student will gain the mistaken impression that his graduate work places him on an easy escalator to high responsibility and success. On the job such men soon find that education is no substitute for hard work and "drive" and discover vigorous contemporaries with sharp elbows and keen if unlettered minds moving past them...
...pointed out it would be impossible ever to gain all the needed instructors from among college graduates...
...favor of pack-running, of predatory assembly, of great collectivities that bury, if they do not destroy, individuality. Into these mindless associations the young flock like cattle. The fee they pay for initiation is abandonment of self and im mersion in the herd . . . This innovation can yield no social gain. For it is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived. In the crowd, herd or gang, it is a mass mind that operates-a mind without subtlety, without compassion, uncivilized...
...letter to the Student Council, two 20 year old Austrians, Richard Melisch and Eugen Sillar of Vienna, together with an unnamed Sudani, sketched out their proposed expedition and asked for a Harvard student to participate. According to the letter, the adventures hope to gain "a thrilling experience of life with the natives, to work and house with them, and to see their customs, as well as their old traditions and culture...