Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliffe magazines have never been able to gain adequate financial backing," a Radcliffe official complained yesterday. One difficulty to that there are no rich Radcliffe alumnae, corresponding to these who assist Harvard periodicals, who are willing to give money to a magazine, rather than directly to the college. Another trouble is that no Radcliffe magazine has built up enough prestige to attract the undergraduate manuscripts offered to the New Yorker and other professional periodicals...
...personnel goes, 19 seniors--17 of them lettermen--walked the graduation plank last June, and 11 of these were starters at one point or another last season. Two more letter winners, John White and Charlie Walsh, have failed to report; Al Wilson, a big, strong lineman who did not gain a letter last year but who did establish himself as an excellent prospect, has not shown up; and John Ederer, a sophomore back with speed and great driving power, is on probation...
...also predicted that the club would gain members, not lose them, this year. Most of the new blood will be inactive progressives stirred up by the pressure of world events, "But some will be converts," Beveridge said...
Conclusion. Militarily, preventive war by the U.S. in 1950 would be a blunder of tragic proportions. The U.S. would lose more than it could hope to gain. In such a situation the question of the morality of preventive war, which troubles many Americans, may not even arise. Whether or not preventive war is morally bad, the facts of 1950 make it military nonsense...
...decade ago ($9.1 billion). But the rise was not as fearsome as it looked. While the nation's per capita consumer debt had risen from $69 in 1940 to $135, up 95%, national income had risen from $616 per capita to $1,437 in the same period, a gain of 133%. But consumer credit would be one of the first things curbed under the new Defense Production bill...