Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delinquency is recognized throughout the country as a very grave problem, and "just the facts" should be sufficient to help us to gain the facilities and improvements required to combat the evil...
...Indo-China, "international Communism" is trying to gain "a stranglehold on the people," said Dulles, and its agent is Moscow-trained Ho Chi Minh. Ho's armies "are supplied with artillery and ammunition . . . much of it fabricated by the Skoda Works in Czechoslovakia and transported across Russia and Siberia, and then down through China to Viet...
...appointment. He could not picture all students of one school living together in the same house but was certain of arousing resentment if all students were arbitrarily assigned. His strongest argument against freshman participation in the House Plan, however, was to permit each class to form new friendships and gain a certain unity before being separated into the Houses. On these grounds the Yard, long the domain of seniors, became freshman territory and the all-inclusive term "Yardling" was born...
...death of the College in its division, and club members, who saw in it the downfall of the club system, were met with further appeasement. Profiting from Woodrow Wilson's mistake, Lowell told fearful alumni, "I am dividing to save Harvard," then convinced the clubs they would gain in importance with the addition of the Houses. He pictured the buildings along Mt. Auburn Street as serving the function of bringing men of different Houses together and thus somehow preserving the entity of the College. His main argument was that if club men wanted to stay out, they could. The Houses...
...everybody ate every meal, the board rate would go up to around $16," he said. "The cost of any changes would be too great for any gain that might result...