Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity tennis team is favored to gain its fifth straight win when it takes on M.I.T. at 3:45 p.m. today on the Soldiers Field courts. Crimson coach Jack Barnaby expects a "rougher match," however, than the squad got in its last two outings--shutouts over Springfield and Bowdoin...
...good news, many a company was still having trouble. United Air Lines, for example, told stockholders that because of higher costs they could look forward to a loss for the quarter, despite an 11% gain in revenues over 1953's $37 million. A 14% drop in revenues caused the Erie Railroad's net to fall more than 50%, to 54? a share...
Like Koerner, Bloom is Jewish and European-born. Brought to the U.S. from Lithuania by his shoemaker father, he was raised humbly in Boston. Bloom was introduced to painting in a settlement house, continued it on the WPA and gained fame in the early '40s. His first important canvases showed the influence of the European expressionists Chaim Soutine and Oskar Kokoshka. He applied their color-by-the-gob technique to molten-seeming canvases of rabbis, chandeliers, brides, Christmas trees, buried treasure and, finally, corpses. At 40, Bloom exercises a control of his medium as elaborate, and theatrical, as Caravaggio...
...National Lead, helped by a new die-casting division, said that a slight gain in sales had brought approximately a 30% rise in earnings over the $6,202,049 reported for 1953's first quarter...
...reasonable demarcation between adolescence and adulthood. Many political observers now maintain that 18 rather than 21 is a more reasonable dividing point, at least as far as political participation is concerned. As publicity increases no doubt the sentimental arguments "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" will gain much popular supper. But University faculty members who have long studied various aspects of political behavior, generally offer more incisive arguments in favor of extending the suffrage...