Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard. The goal of the program, from its very inception was to give the layman some knowledge of what science is and how the scientist grapples with the problems that challenge him. For this purpose ordinary elementary science courses are totally inadequate. Designed for the science concentrator who gains insight into the problems and philosophy of science only in advanced courses, they dogmatically state a vast number of facts, all necessary for further advancement, but worth little to the layman who will take only one course. Sometimes these facts are never mastered; frequently they are soon forgotten. Except where secondary...
...Department noted that only a few weeks ago at Berlin, Molotov had lambasted NATO and introduced his pan-European pact idea with the specific proviso that the U.S. should be excluded except as an "observer." Now he was switching decks. "It is a maneuver," said the U.S. spokesman, "to gain admittance within the walls of the West, to undermine its security...
...that she will get married and sooner or later quit work to mind her children. In Harris County (which includes Houston), only 109 nurses graduated in 1952. While some moved out of town, seven more moved in. But the county lost 111 by retirement, for a net gain of only five, while the number of hospital beds soared from around...
...better report than Congress itself would write," the economists found the Randall Report "badly compromised" by Steelman Clarence Randall's efforts to appease the protectionist wing of his Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. The report failed to make it clear that "American consumers and producers [would] gain from freer trade and larger imports...
...sing ballads popular 20 years ago, recite the Gettysburg Address, play checkers and do grade-school arithmetic. He can name the first but not the present President of the U.S. Hewitt's overall I.Q. has gone up from 52 after the injury to 71, but nearly all the gain is from improvement in his control of movements and using his sense of sight...