Word: gained
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...Manhattan businessman, is a good example of a layman who works hard for Christianity without stumbling into either pitfall. He is a devout Episcopalian. As a licensed lay reader, a synod delegate and field worker for his church's New York diocese, he tries his best to gain more followers for what he calls "the sleeping giant" of U.S. religious bodies. As vice president of the Laymen's Movement for a Christian World, he tries to make Christian principles felt in various segments of public life, e.g., by helping to get a prayer room installed in Manhattan...
...Harvard was forced to kick on the next series, Brown came back and threatened to tie the score. But with fourth down and four to go and the ball on the Crimson 32, Brown kicked. This was the crucial decision, a bad one because there was little to be gained by a kick and the ball rolled into the end zone for a net gain of 12 yards...
Showing the biggest gain over the past year was the Law School, which was $47,016.04 in the red in 1951-52, but which showed a profit of $22,356.22 for last year...
...section where Brown has been noticeably unsuccessful in attracting students is in the South, once its most fertile out-of-state undergraduate source. In fact, of the Brown alumni killed in the Civil War, almost half were Confederates who had come North to gain a New England Baptist education. But Brown has gradually lost its liberal Baptist tinge, and the Southern hard-shells have grown to mistrust anything north of the Mason-Dixon...
...This is the final indication of Republican irresponsibility," he continued. "It is the acceptance by the administration of the political philosophy of McCarthyism." Howe said he felt that Brownell's action was obviously political in purpose. "In the long run the Republicans will lose far more than they can gain by continuing these witch hunts. What kind of support can Eisenhower expect from the Democrats if his administration arouses such bitterness...