Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Forty-five Harvard alumni have joined with some 40 other prominent Boston citizens in order to gain control of the still-unassigned Channel Five and give the city some worthwhile commercial television...
Explaining his organization's view of the French-Vietminh conflict, French said that the way to solve the problem "is obviously not by putting more tanks and gains." But any kind of a desirable solution seems improbable, he added "so long as the Communists insist that their forces gain all the land they're after...
...another point, over half the players on both teams took part in a melee over a loose ball in front of the bench. The scramble went on for over a minute before Crimson center Fred Horween bounced a Penn ball-carrier out of bounds to gain possession...
...many valid complaints are heard against the shoddy intellectualism which is encouraged by pocket-sized philosophies and "Such a Person Made Easy" books. Flaubert, too, despised this surface learning. In a way then, Bouvard and Pecuchet are victims of circumstances. Even if they had the ability to gain real knowledge of any subject, it would be impossible, Flaubert seems to say, because of the superficial culture of the nineteenth century...
...Democratic appointees in desirable government jobs. Coming into office after a twenty year famine, the Republicans found themselves faced with a block of civil servants who were, for all practical purposes, irremovable. The FHA probe has served to jar a number of them loose, enabling the Republicans to gain effective control over the agency and pay some pressing patronage debts as well...