Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reader Maas is editorializing; TIME did not. All praise to Cicero's 70,000. But it would be unique town indeed that could harbor the Capone mob through a decade and fail to gain notoriety...
...remembered reading of termites who burrow unseen within a beautiful and apparently strong house; then, suddenly, the house collapses. It was something like that with people. Jealousy, like a poison--perhaps like a cancer; but worse, since a cancer, if discovered early, can be cured--constantly, subtly tries to gain acceptance in the mind. Once the entering wedge is injected, every incident, every word, every expression can be twisted to the support of a pre-determined conclusion...
...advocate a great militaristic movement, but do feel that those men interested in the present situation would gain much through service in the Guard. They, as Harvard men, would be getting into an organization which has, more than once, stood for things above and beyond Harvard. William F. Murray '41. President of the Caisson Club...
...proclamation has one objective: to gain Harvard support for the Russian position. After elaborating Russia's reasons for her attack on Finland, the proclamation adds a brief suggestion that Harvard should disregard the "American imperialists" who are "taking the lead in Chamberlain's anti-Soviet schemes." America must not accept the "pro-war hysteria" which aims to turn her against Russia...
...Since she sacrificed so much to gain Finland, she must be planning to follow up with something very soon. It is very likely that that 'something' will be the seizure of Bessarabia, which is now a part of Rumania. Russia lost three territories as a result of the last war: Finland, some parts of Poland, and Bessarabia. She has already regained two of them, and it is my guess that she may have it in mind to get back the third...