Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry-wide attitude: "The engineer is afforded an exceptional opportunity to work on the more challenging engineering projects of today with the latest and most complete laboratory and testing equipment of its kind in the world, to associate with engineers who are outstanding in their fields, and to gain personal prestige for himself as a professional engineer...
...sexy, Farouk. for all his leering and prancing, is a bush-league lover. "Farouk had an inferiority complex with women," Halim testified. "This is why he ran so much after them. He wanted to show he was tough with the fair sex. Whenever we were competing to gain a lady's favor, I won out without difficulty." With the court hanging on every word, Halim then modestly confided: "I believe I am more successful than [Cinemactor] Robert Taylor...
Economics tutorial can gain a boost from its program of junior oral examinations. Government, English, and Social Relations need this boost just as badly. Tutors in these fields might well consider the Economics plan as a practical, effective way to achieve both increased interest and improved tutorial performance...
Only by striking out after new forms of drama, new means of expression and types of production can Harvard gain distinction. And certainly, a University is the proper place for such work. The academic community can be excited by innovation, and will more readily support new forms and ideas than would a New York audience, or one leary of the unconventional...
...clear opportunity to show its purported good will. In his speech before the U.N. on Tuesday, he called on the Russians to join in a project to stockpile atomic fuel for peaceful uses. This time, even if Russia again weasels on atomic controls, the United States can only gain in its struggle to solidify Western Europe's defenses...