Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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RUSHING Attempts Net Gain Clasby 82 454 Culver 65 348 Ederer 34 120 Blitz...
...such a plan may be, it is not for Harvard. The University is essentially a cooperative within itself; any unrestricted gifts it gets are proportioned out to whatever department the corporation deems needy. Moreover, the Corporation does not want any funds earmarked for specific projects. With little to gain, then, the University's presence in such a cooperative fund would in essence be merely a drawing card and a help to her less fortunate sister colleges...
...Department last night agreed that the outcome of the 1952 elections is still uncertain. The first speaker, Arthur N. Holcombe, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, said before a group of Government graduate students in Littauer that he thought it would be very difficult for the Republicans to gain control of the House of Representatives and even harder for them to capture the Senate...
...will help the Common Man to perceive "what the good life is." The trouble with the Common Man is that "he has not learned to see life in all its possible richness . . . has lost contact with that which is greater than himself, from which (or Whom) he might gain courage to escape the crowd...
...post-Korea bounce sold for 80? a pound, was down to 27?. Lead was 4? a pound cheaper than a year ago, and zinc 6? less. The BLS index of all commodities, which had jumped a maximum of 16% after Korea, had lost nearly five percent of the gain and, with the near-record 1952 farm crops coming in, many commodities were expected to fall still more. Since retail prices rise & fall with commodity prices, the drop in commodity prices should mean some lower retail prices in the future...