Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...king was probably King Raedwald of East Anglia (now the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk), whose palace was at Rendlesham, four miles away. A coroner's jury, hastily convened, decided that plates and ornaments were treasure (abandoned publicly in the ground), not treasure trove (hidden for future gain), therefore belonged to Mrs. Pretty, not the Crown...
...annual population increase (births minus deaths) has hovered around 900,000. Government statisticians recently got a shock when they audited vital statistics for 1938. Births had fallen by 230,000, were 210,000 below the ten-year average. Simultaneously the death rate had increased, leaving a net population gain of only 668,519. Furthermore, war casualties, which are too holy to be reduced to statistics, were not included in the death total. The War Office has announced war deaths as 60,000; actually they are probably three times that. The actual net gain was perhaps...
...yielding 7.3% to income-minded buyers who counted on holding it on the possibility that Mr. Davis will offer them a trade-in for U. S. Rubber's common. The common last week sold at $43, up 466% from 1935's low, versus a 42% gain on the Dow-Jones Industrial average...
...Weekly News Service: ". . . BEWARE THE KISS OF DEATH OF THE C. I. O. . . . Is it possible the C. I. O. is out to promote the interests of the A. F. of L.? ... They know they can't get anywhere on their own and they are anxious to gain shelter from public wrath behind the established reputation of the A. F. of L. . . . And the next thing you know, the C. I. O. press and the Communist press are . . . trying to make the public and Congress believe the A. F. of L. rank and file is not loyal...
Says Historian Conklin: "I once heard a distinguished physiologist say that there are two ways to gain recognition, either brag or fight. It seems to me that Schleiden did both...