Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...smoothly rolling production lines came 17,000,000 radios, 3,000,000 vacuum cleaners and 3,500,000 washing machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over...
...entire Network transmitter was rebuilt to gain sufficient power to carry across the river. In reconstructing it, the group added several improved designs. John V. Bouyouces '49, Network technical director, predicted that the new transmission system would eliminate all of the station's current broadcasting troubles...
Based on definite educational needs and not on a vague democratic ideal, the report should gain wide support. Yet opposition to some of the Commission's proposals has already cropped up, and more will arise, if determined action follows the report. Federal aid to state institutions has long been a red flag to professional supporters of states' rights, especially in the South, which needs aid most. Also, four members of the Commission have dissented from the majority which condemned the paralyzing policy of racial segregation in southern colleges. Added to these stumbling-blocks of blind localism and prejudice...
...acutely aware of his difficulties, and he seeks desperately to get "in" with groups he knows. He watches the club group; he finds out he is excluded if he does not meet certain restrictive standards. He watches the publications group; unless he has certain peculiar talents he cannot gain entry there. He may abhor politics, social work, card playing, or drinking; these groups are therefore out. The terms of the search should not be put too baldly, but it goes on nevertheless. Success equates with satisfaction, failure with unhappiness. Very few are strong enough to go the whole way alone...
...million plus, daily and Sunday) more & more news in less & less space. They have trimmed margins, shrunk headlines, fitted stories into pages like jigsaw puzzles, even used the "gutters" between pages. And they have sharpened their copy pencils: one of the sweeter uses of austerity has been a gain in crispness and readability...