Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DURHAM, N. H, May 7--New Hampshire aggressiveness and Harvard sloppiness were almost enough to give the Wildcat lacrosse team an upset victory here today, but the Crimson showed sufficient co-ordination and last-half improvement to gain a 7 to 5 triumph...
Candidate Eisenhower's biggest single gain in delegates came last week when New York's district delegates were picked. The gain was expected, since Ikeman Tom Dewey controls the New York G.O.P. organization. But the figures were still impressive: 73 for Ike, one for Taft, 16 in doubt. In nine clear-cut contests between pledged delegate candidates, Ike won eight, Taft...
...private buildings, and is taught by privately paid teachers). No student has to take advantage of this, but he may do so if he or his family wishes. Those who stay in school during this hour or so have nothing more than a study period, for otherwise they might gain too great an academic lead on their more religious schoolmates. This is the steeple that the Supreme Court has legalized, and for all its lawfulness, it still looks very much out of place...
...silence, but there is something inherently fearsome about voters blindly supporting a man, neither knowing nor caring where he stands. Moreover, it is hard to see how a Bushman-like silence will really help him in the scramble for delegates. His strength is in the Liberal Republican wing. To gain delegates, he must woo more conservative Republicans, who distrust him for his honeymoon with the Administration foreign policy. Many believe--and no Ike supporter has denied--that his domestic philosophy would ring pleasantly in the ears of conservatives...
Electrical. Westinghouse, with an 11.5% gain in sales, found its net profit down from $16.7 million in 1951's first quarter to $15.5 million. General Electric, whose sales fell by $9,000,000, had its net clipped from $35 million to $29 million...