Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Friendly Sons of Saint Patrick who want to extend Dublin's beneficent domain and presumably would be anxious themselves to enjoy the blessings which they urge upon the reluctant Orangemen. When the exchange is accomplished, the opposition to a united Ireland will end, the U.S. will gain several hundred thousand of the sober and diligent folk who gave us Andrew Jackson, Stonewall Jackson, Cleveland, McKinley and Woodrow Wilson, and Ireland will gain a like number of Hagues, Curleys, O'Dwyers, McCarthys-"The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you; but it really...
Blue-eyed, brunette Ellen Raphael Knauff, 35, is the German-born war bride of a U.S. Army combat veteran. She is also an anti-Nazi who fled Germany and served as a wartime sergeant in the British WAAF. But she has not been able to gain admission to the U.S. When she came to Ellis Island 20 months ago, the Department of Justice's immigration service excluded her as a security risk, without revealing the evidence against her or giving her a hearing. Last January, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the exclusion order without requiring the Department of Justice...
...sold 54,993, and the gap between production and demand virtually exhausted every dealer's stock. The spring fever had even spread to the used-car market. Automotive News reported that the new demand had caused the average price of all used cars to rise to $982, a gain of $44 in two months. In all, the automakers were roaring along so merrily that Ford Sales Boss Jack Davis predicted that record production could well last through the middle...
...Radcliffe meeting, Dean Kerby-Miller urged the freshmen to choose a field of concentration that they will really enjoy working in. While they are in college, she said, they should gain "cultural, intellectual, and moral" perspectives on life...
...Point Four, of well executed, can be successful in a more positive way. It can partly raise living levels in deprived parts of the world, open new markets for the world's production and new sources of raw material. In return for aid the U. S. stands to gain politically and economically--and might store up some good will where good will for the West is now in low stock...