Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARSHALL: Yes. In time-about two years hence-the U.S. and its allies can be prepared for all eventualities, and any year of global peace is a gain...
...said Marshall, "because the Communists were very anxious to go through with it, because I think quite evidently they felt that their discipline and their strength, particularly with the people of the lower classes, the peasantry, was so much better than that of the Nationalist government that they could gain the control politically. And the hope in the matter, so far as I saw it, was that other parties and the nonparty group could coalesce and the Generalissimo back them ... to hold the balance of power between the two, alongside of the evident factor to me and to my associates...
Penn broke the tie in the next inning on a triple and a long fly. In the third frame the visitors broke the game wide open with a four run burst. These were all unearned as five miscues and one hit allowed Penn to gain complete command...
Meanwhile, Eliot downed Adams, 7 to 4, to gain undisputed first place in the House baseball league. Fred Rhinelander pitched the Elephants to victory, Joel Kozol hurling for the losers...
Harvard and all 78 other medical schools in the nation will gain sorely needed money every year under terms of a new National Fund for Medical Education, set up yesterday in New York...