Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Culver has only slim chances to gain on Smith this week, needing 111 yards to tie Smith's record as it stands...
...Franco rules by a shrewd playing off of three groups: army, church and party. When the Nazis and Fascists rode high, Generalissimo Francisco Franco let his Falange ride high. When Hitler and Mussolini were beaten, Franco discouraged the Falange's Fascist salute and uniformed parades, hoping thereby to gain a little credit with the victors of World War II. After a long, wily fight, his strategy paid off. He signed a concordat with the Vatican, a great gain for the church. (Last week Spain's Cardinal Primate decreed that all priests in Spain must, during each Mass, invoke...
...strictest collegiate discipline west of West Point and Annapolis. Notre Dame football players get much of their spiritual lift from the pre-game dressing-room chats by Coach Leahy. "Usually." says a lineman, "he tells us that we are a team with a lot to lose and little to gain because we win so often. He also tells us what Notre Dame stands for all over the world. He says Catholic youngsters all over the world are watching us. Now that the games are carried by short wave, it's even more...
HOTELMAN Conrad Hilton has rung up his second big capital gain in less than a month (TIME, Oct. 19). Since he needed cash for his new $14 million Beverly Hilton which is scheduled to open in 1954, Hilton sold the 300-room Town House in Los Angeles to the Beverly Hills Development Corp., then leased it back under a management contract. Sale price: $3,600,000, four times what he paid for the hotel...
Brinton's writing is quite lucid; in fact he often sacrifices accuracy to gain clarity in making his optimistic generalizations. In such a short book perhaps this is inevitable, but only audacity could permit him to criticize Koestler and Shirer for generalizing their pessimism. With Brinton's hope tipping the scales the other way, the reader is tempted to seek the balanced view somewhere in between...