Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intricate demands, infinitely multiplied, have forced Gifford to improve constantly during five seasons with the Giants. "The most surprising thing about him," says Giant Coach Jim Lee Howell, "is that he's still improving." But he is already good enough to be the first pro this year to gain a total of more than 1,000 yds. running with the ball and receiving passes. He has gained an average of 5.2 yds. every time he has handled the ball this season. But Gifford figures that time is running out for him, and after two more years he will turn...
...human and animal behavior, learning, and motivation. For laboratory work is as vital to the advanced study of psychology as it is to the study of any other of the natural sciences. Through the study of animals, as well as mental patients and normal people, psychologists hope to gain insight into the mental processes which govern human behavior and activity...
While most attention has centered on the Council's attempt to gain the extra hour in the Houses, the freshman Union Committee succeeded in gaining two long-sought extensions of freshman hours...
Encouraged by the fading Suez crisis, the stock market last week scored the biggest week's gain since 1938, with industrials soaring 22.01 points on the Dow-Jones average to close at 494.79. Across the board, a pre-Christmas surge of business sent old records falling. The Commerce Department reported manufacturers' sales at a new high of $30.1 billion in October, $1.6 billion better than the previous record of last March; new orders rose to $29.5 billion, $300 million above last August's previous high. Personal income also set records: after topping previous peaks for two straight...
...executive committee of Fruehauf Trailer Co., and holder of 1,400 shares of Penn-Texas): "This case is alarmingly similar to Sydney Albert's Bellanca [TIME, Oct. 22]. In Bellanca, Albert had a whole safe full of unissued shares, which he traded for shares of other companies to gain control of them." Answered Silberstein: "We are not another Bellanca, We are very very sound...