Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holy Terrors is a brand new translation of Cocteau's widely-known tale, Les Enfants Terribles. It is also the latest addition to New Directions' modern French list. Most important, it is a job of translating which should gain the book an even wider audience than it already enjoys...
...opening up to venturesome tourists. Now peaceful, Viet Nam next month will open a hunting bureau in Saigon, with safari guides, rifles and elephants for hire. Package price for hunting panther, tiger, elephant, buffalo, bear: $8 a day. In all, 115,000 Americans will travel in the Pacific-a gain of 15% over last year...
...varsity tennis team had to play only two-thirds of a match yesterday to gain its eighteenth win of the year. Rain halted the Crimson's contest with Penn after the six singles had been completed, and since Harvard had won five of the six, enough to sew up the match, play was halted and the contest will be regarded as official...
...students, most are generally content with the program. Some of those admitted from the eleventh grade comment that while it was an intellectual gain, the sudden transition from junior year to college created a difficult situation to adjust to in their social life. One of the original group of juniors comments that early admission gave him "pres...
...postpone the series of tests scheduled for this week. Declaring a moratorium on further experiments until the Communists' intentions have been fully explored would have the effect of demonstrating America's concern over the possible effects of test explosions. If Moscow is sincere in its proposal, the world would gain substantially by such a ban, and if it is not sincere, America can discover this before it loses any ground in the armaments race...