Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commuters Gain...
Gamblers also add to the financial aid problem. These aren't scholarship students who lose their tuition money in reading period poker parties. They are the entering students who are refused scholarships but who come to Harvard anyway, hoping to make a good record and gain a stipend in their upperclass years. The College feels some obligation toward these men, and they always represent a group of worthy students in great need...
...crisis comes when the woman reaches 40 or 50 and her children are grown. She then resorts to "bridge, chatter, shopping expeditions, aimless clubs and, in extreme cases, to alcohol to gain an illusory sense of activity...
...Airlines, Inc., largest U.S. domestic airline, are a patient lot. For the last three years their company has been in the red, has paid dividends only six times in 16 years. Last week the stockholders finally got some good news. In 1949, thanks to higher mail pay, a 42% gain in freight traffic and a 15% rise in passenger traffic, American had netted the biggest profit in its history -$6.5 million (v. a 1948 loss of $2.8 million). That was equal to 79? a share...
Besides the feeling of belonging to a common community with other students, Americans will gain much information about other countries, Wolontis said...