Word: gain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many converted to Hinduism found themselves classified as untouchables. Robbed by unscrupulous moneylenders, some tribes now believe that the sun and moon go into eclipse to escape their creditors. The practices of headhunting, human sacrifice and witchcraft have almost disappeared, but adibasis are not sure civilization is all gain. Said one, pointing to an eleven year-old bride, "We didn't have child marriages before...
...these ten years I have come to realize as never before how much praise man is just simply bound to give to God his Maker. This I hold a gain for the sake of which I willingly put in second place the wistful desire to be younger, though I cannot suppress that desire...
Alias Nick Beal (Paramount) is a modern morality play subtly fashioned around the text: "What shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" Into the life of a gang-busting prosecutor (Thomas Mitchell) floats a mysterious character known as Nick Beal (Ray Milland). At first Beal supplies the prosecutor with evidence against a big-time gambler; then he stands at the lawyer's elbow, goading his political ambitions. By the time Mitchell has been persuaded to play ball with a corrupt, vote-powerful political machine, it is clear that...
Howie Houston is the third best college heavyweight in the East. He was decisioned by Homer Barr, who went on to win the class championship, Saturday afternoon in the eastern intercollegiate wrestling semi-finals at Ithaca, then decisioned Cornell's Bob Clark, 5 to 3, to gain third place. Meanwhile in Cambridge, the Athletic Committee again turned down the proposal to make wrestling a major sport...
...open with no one team a sure bot to take the championship. Cornell, Navy, Princeton, Penn State, and Syracuse are all strong at certain weights and any one of them may be able to place enough of their seeded men among the top three in their class and thus gain the title...