Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better living and lower taxes that won by-elections for them last week in the port town of Harwich and in the dock and milling city of Hull in Yorkshire. In both they polled a higher percentage of the total vote than at the 1951 election. In Hull the gain was a solid 3.65%. In 27 by-elections since the general election in 1951 that returned them to power, the Tories have held all their own seats (15) and won one hitherto-safe Labor seat-the first time in 29 years that a government has taken a seat from...
These headmasters felt that a boy just begins to gain positions of responsibility and leadership in his senior year and that it would not be fair either to him or to the school involved to allow him to miss this maturing process...
...continuing struggle to breach the Magnolia Curtain of racial discrimination, the Negro scored three breakthroughs, one no-gain last week...
...battle for the headlines was at once artificial and very real. The French were losing it at a time when both sides seek to gain bargaining power as a prelude to possible peace talks. The French can lose the war either by defeat (which has not happened) or by default (which may happen). To win the war requires stronger efforts (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and a sustained will...
...instance, the British endured a spate of low-grade idiots in the ranks during the Revolution and the War of 1812. We have it on cinema graphic authority that American spays had only to assume a bogus West End accent to gain admission to the most secret of English planning sessions...