Word: amassed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...selling more to the U.S. than it is buying. Taking all items into account (exports, military costs, economic aid), the famed dollar gap has been closed; since 1950 Europe has increased its pile of gold by $8 billion, and the outside world as a whole has managed to amass short-term credits in the U.S.-all constituting potential claims against gold-of $15.6 billion. Last year about $2 billion in gold flowed out of the U.S., and this year's U.S. deficit in foreign payments seems likely to reach $4.5 billion...
MASTERPIECES of art are matter and spirit fused; thus they can have particular appeal to religious men. The Popes of Rome especially have been lovers of art, and in Renaissance times their power as temporal princes made it possible to amass art treasure on a grand scale. On public view at the Vatican, that treasure has become one of Rome's crowning glories...
...Crimson received the benefit of seven B.U. errors which resulted in three unearned runs. Center fielder Tom Boone and second baseman Jim Dwinell helped to amass the remainder with two safeties apiece. In the first inning a walk, an error, and singles by Phil Bernstein and Williams netted two runs, which turned out to be enough...
...dollar. Almost the only quizzes left are the small-payoff contests that the trade calls "peanut" shows. But this week, after four months on the air, Air Force Lieut. James Astrue will have proved that, given time, tenacity, and a modest amount of information, a man can still amass an astonishing amount of peanuts...
...student who can amass enough learning to get Advanced Placement in three courses is often one with widespread interests. Not all A. P. students get advancement in Chemistry, Physics, and Mathematics; some get it in Mathematics, American History, and French. Thus, a boy with enough interest in widely separated areas to take stiff, advanced classes in all of them must almost immediately make up his mind to forsake two of them. One of the greatest benefits of Freshman year is that it can give an opportunity to consider the problem of devoting one's self to a single area...