Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There is not now, nor was there ever, an intention of bringing criminal proceedings. Our aim is only to get the money back," Theodore L. Kesselman '54 said yesterday. He added it would be ridiculous for them to try to start criminal action because they could not hope to gain the money except in a civil suit...
...effort to gain the benefit of the thinking and advice of Harvard undergraduate organization interested in Congressional investigations of colleges, the Student Council hereby invites the following groups to send one representative each to a committee established by the Council to offer suggestions for Council action and or to issue statements under their name in response to specific actions of investigating Committees provided that every member of the established committee can concur therein: (list to be drawn...
...dividend on the common stock, of which he owns or controls 36%. Since the stock was selling at $5.25 only three years ago and the deal gives it a value of $17, Canaday and his co-owners (mainly his family) were more than willing to take a capital gain of $17.4 million on the deal. He is selling his plants, but not his company. Kaiser Manufacturing, which is changing its own name to Willys Motors, will operate the plants, while the original Willys-Overland Motors, having transformed its property into cash, will continue as an independent investment company. As with...
...almost inevitable among patients who are not acutely ill yet must stay in bed month after month. Stephania's willfulness, her almost ferocious desire to bear the agonies of a plaster cast that may reshape her grotesque body, seem offensive to the other patients. But gradually they gain some of her hunger to become normal again, while she learns to value their simple, unheroic humanity. Under Stephania's prodding, little Thura begins to move her paralyzed fingers, while Fröken Nilsson, outraged at being called an "old heap of fat" by Stephania, goes on a rigorous diet...
...hearings themselves, the Lubell's only comment is that the only reason for their being called before the public session was to harass them and to gain publicity for Committee members...