Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palmer's mother. It was the death of a racing pal, John Parsons Cook, which brought her Billy-saintly or otherwise-to book. The friends' financial transactions were more snarled up than the accounts of a waterfront loan shark, but it seems that Dr. Palmer stood to gain by Cook's death. One night they met in The Raven Hotel, Shrewsbury, to toast the victory of a nag called Polestar. The scene, as Graves engraves it, is worthy of Cruikshank. "Will you take another glass?" asked Cook of Palmer...
Although the plan, as suggested by Monro's speech, was one of the many that first failed to gain majority support, it was kept in mind, and when the "sense of urgency" arose last August, it was again proposed, and this time secured a majority, although not unanimous support. Particulars of the program were then worked out, and the revised Conference rules and a detailed manual on their application were approved by the Conference Faculty representatives in February...
...Well, do you know John McClellan went through that whole campaign without ever saying the name Sid McMath? That changed him. He saw what he could gain by keeping calm. Not that he became a calm person, but he practiced calmness because he could see its virtue...
When Westchester County Banker Charles E. Stahl and Ohio's Michael Di Salle, onetime U.S. Director of Price Stabilization, bought into U.S. Hoffman Machinery Corp. last month (TIME, April 15), the company sorely needed a transfusion. New President Stahl and Executive Committee Chairman Di Salle hoped to gain working control of the company by buying the 224,938 shares of stock held by President Hyman Marcus, who moved up to become board chairman. They also hoped to raise $2,000,000 to refinance the shaky corporate empire (23 subsidiaries manufacturing everything from candy to tin cans). But the team...
...thousand pounds' worth." Room at the Top suggests for the first time that the Welfare State can be used as a runway for a take-off into the upper economic air by a young man who is not too finicky about throwing his friends over the side to gain altitude...