Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Surplus Property Board (later Surplus Property Administration), charged with setting policies for disposing of some $30 billion worth of Government property left over from the war, ranging from shoe polish, bayonets and bombers, to oil pipelines and complete aluminum plants. Symington sold his Emerson stock at a capital gain of around $1,000,000, took on what he calls "the roughest job I ever...
...With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already a profit of more than $3,500 on the call. Calls for six months and ten days or longer are the most popular because any profit on a call of that length is a long-term capital gain, taxable at a maximum...
...Crimson, on paper, has the strength to gain its second consecutive upset victory...
...partial truth of each of these stereotypes is easily recognizable even to the casual visitor, but only one of these generalizations seems to gain the unanimous recognition of faculty and students: Sarah Lawrence is devoted to the individual, and individualism is its most cherished attribute...
...liberal arts college, but is, in fact, one of the most valuable fields of concentration at Princeton. If the School acted merely to coordinate courses for its "members," it might be criticized as disunified. But the Conference and the senior seminar draw together (the various disciplines), and students presumably gain at least preliminary acquaintance with the tools of the social sciences. And, significantly, they "learn by doing," by applying these several disciplines to important public problems...