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Word: gain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the cost of labor has become a major item on the budget of the dining halls, the movement for student waiters will probably gain force...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ticklish Problems in Lowering Rates Face New Council Committee on Board | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

...squad hits the roads this week and tackles formidable opposition in the Bruins of Brown University and the Cardinals of Wesleyan. In both games the Crimson hoopmen will take the floor as underdogs, but they are expected to give a good account of themselves in each encounter and will gain valuable experience...

Author: By Donald Peddle, | Title: Hoopster Squad to Travel This Weekend For Encounters With Two Opponents | 12/12/1939 | See Source »

...professional basis. Most fluttered guest at the lunch was one Mildred Stewart, a maid, who sat between Mrs. Roosevelt and feminist Author Fannie Hurst. Mrs. Roosevelt listened to Miss Stewart's speech: "As trained workers we don't feel we have anything to gain from a union ... we have discussed the advantages of social security but we haven't fallen for the arguments of either C. I. O. or A. F. of L. organizers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Housekeeper's Week | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...away from the hands of the assassin. If it were right to kill chickens there would be no expression of fear on the part of the chicken." To show up meat eating, he told of how he utterly confounded a woman who argued that one must eat meat to gain strength. Snapped Dr. Pease: "I never before knew why the measly elephant is so weak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

...surface, Harvard stands only to gain by this appointment. Essential in the long range campaign for better public relations are interesting radio broadcasts. Faculty dissertations on the "Effect of Income Fluctuations on the Marginal Propensity to Consume" may serve a purpose, but hardly that of making new friends for Harvard. Mr. Siepmann, who has been prominent in the realm of adult education, can be of great assistance. And the Radio Workshop could obviously ask for no better guide and tutor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BRITANNIA RULES THE AIR WAVES | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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