Word: regain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year in the form of a general examination encompassing "a broad knowledge of the techniques and methods in (a student's) field," tutorial work, and specific course material. Students who had failed their sophomore test would be permitted to take junior year qualifiers if they wished to try to regain entry into the Honors program...
...quickly returned the White House pressure gauge to normal, but the Senate was already under full steam. Georgia's Richard Russell, whose prestige as chairman of the Senate Armed Forces Committee had suffered during the battle for a Pentagon reorganization bill (TIME, July 28), saw a chance to regain ground. Russell introduced a rider to an appropriations bill that would forbid the Administration the right to undertake any study of surrender. U.S. citizens, cried Dick Russell, "would prefer to die on their feet in the event of a nuclear holocaust than to be making plans for living on their...
...course in opposing loud congressional demands, and some by businessmen, for heavy tax cuts and a vast program of Government spending. According to C.E.D.'s graphs, neither course would necessarily have accelerated the recovery. Despite 1954's tax cut, personal income took 14 months to regain and hold lost ground. This time personal income is almost back to pre-recession levels in ten months, without any reduction in taxes. At the start of the 1949 recession, Government spending was sharply increased, yet employment showed no improvement for eight months. Without such help this time, the strong upturn came...
After months of recession, U.S. business had finally hit bottom and started to climb once more. Leading indicators edged upward, farmers were entering a new period of prosperity, the all-important U.S. consumer was beginning to regain his appetite (see below). As business gathered new momentum, the events in Lebanon and Iraq would surely introduce a new influence. The expected effect: an additional nudge forward...
With 14 weeks to go, reported the Times of London gloomily, Britain's current attempt to regain the America's Cup "was deemed to have all but failed." Boating buffs remembered 1939, when Evaine herself was beaten handily in British waters by the U.S.'s visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger...