Word: gaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Young Democratic Club's general membership meeting will vote tomorrow on a proposed merger with the Radcliffe Young Democratic Club. Two years ago a similar proposal failed to gain the two-thirds vote required for approval...
Twice more in the closing moments the varsity drove deep into opposition territory, only to be thwarted by the determined Big Red line.Crimson halfback LARRY REPSHER is stopped by Cornell's JOHN SANDUSKY (86) after a short gain over left tackle. LYMAN BEGGS (41) charges up for the coup de grace as JON CHRISTIANSON (53) and DAVE CAPPIELLO (80) look...
...Berlin agreement was an agreement on the issue of deadline only; none of the critical basic problems about the future of Berlin or Germany were even touched upon, much less settled. But the removal of the deadline did help gain time, and both President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Christian Herter feel strongly that time works in the West's favor. As Communist leaders are forced by their own internal conditions to pay more attention to consumer demands, as more of their citizens receive the mind-opening benefits of education, the likelihood becomes increasingly great for a liberalized system...
...skin it flays. Nor does The Gang's All Here always jibe with the facts. Harding (inside the party) was no such convention dark horse as he is made out to be; nor was he quite such an incredible babe in the wood; nor did he gain so much stature at the end. There are several good performances in the play, and Jo Mielziner has designed some attractive sets. But they frame a story whose only asset is its effective storytelling...
Sometime I feel like, baby, committin' suicide . . . I got the nerve if I just had anythin' to do it with. I'm gain' down slow, somethin' wrong with me. I've got to make a change while that I'm still young. If I don't I won't ever...