Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson, only college team ever to gain the national crown, has now won it six times. Coach Barnaby played number two on the 1932 squad, the last varsity team to win the title. The present varsity already ranks number one among the country's college teams, with a 6 and 0 record so far this season...
Beginning with the present freshman class, the committee distributed 200 questionnaires asking several general questions. The opening one was why the man had come to Harvard in the first place. Next, he was asked what he thought he would gain from the College; finally, how much time he expected to put into studies, athletics activities, and social affairs...
Working under the guidance of Professors Archibald MacLeish, Thornton Wilder, Harry T. Levin, and other faculty members, the group hopes to gain by practical experience a better working knowledge of the poet in terms of the theatre...
...much has the U.S. output in real goods grown since 1929? Last week the Department of Commerce announced the gain: 75%. It was less than half the increase shown by dollar figures, largely because of the drop in the dollar's purchasing power...
...dollar figure of $280 billion. Said Commerce: the use of current dollars to measure the national product conceals a price rise of about 50% since 1929. But, even on an adjusted basis, reported Commerce, the output of real goods in 1950 increased 7% over 1949-"a more than average gain...