Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military will get data about the fringes of the atmosphere, where guided missiles will fly. The U.S. as a whole will gain prestige as the first nation to get a satellite, even if only a Mouse, on an earth-circling orbit...
...late this month, will come at the same time as the group is completing a thorough study of Cambridge room-renting practices. The final results of the survey-have not yet been analyzed: but preliminary figures show a number of cases where Negro students have been unable to gain rooms after they were promised them over the telephone...
Wedemeyer currently heads the "Committee for One Million," a group working throughout the country to gain one million signatures on a petition against the admission of Red China to the United Nations...
...state of constant agitation and movement, of keeping the pressure on, of feinting to suggest menace where no real menace exists and masking menace just when it is about to prevail. It is a state of yielding an inch only when it is satisfied it will gain a mile...
...Taft (brother of the late Senator), "and it's going to stay where it belongs-downtown." * In 1953, membership in the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. (Northern) boomed to a record 2,581,580, the denomination's headquarters announced. Sunday-school enrollment rose by 90,834-the largest gain in the church's history-to 1,684,415. An upsurge in U.S. church life was also noted by the 45 bishops of the Methodist Church in a statement issued at their annual meeting: "Our people are attending public worship in larger numbers than we have ever known. New churches...