Word: gained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...churches failed to secure a single convert "by profession of faith." These figures, amply documented, were presented to the Men's Church League last week in Manhattan. If they hold true for other denominations, 60,000 out of the total 200,000 U. S. Protestant churches failed to gain a single convert during 1927. Of the remainder, many gained only one or two. Much perturbed, the League asked itself: "What is the matter with the Churches...
...nominating the president, the popular election of senators, the initiative, referendum, and recall the people have been tending toward supreme control of their officials. One of the main things in the way of this progressive movement is the appointment of the federal judiciary by the president. Until the people gain the right to elect their own judges the Hamiltonian principle that the people are not qualified to govern themselves will continue and progressive policies can never become dominant." The query as to whether this would not bring politics into the judiciary brought the frank reply. "There can never be more...
...This Woman Business" passes three acts in the agreeable proof of that old psychological fact--you can't win. A six months orgy of bachelordom of all the Copley males except Mr. Clive is interrupted by Miss Dixon, who uses the assets acknowledged above to gain herself five slaves and one husband. The gaining thereof is a lesson in a technique older and more rigid than that on the stage...
Referring to the outcome of the gradual industrial development of India, Mukerji held the view that in the end, neither India nor the world at large could gain. "In 50 years," said he, "foreign countries can not expect to compete with the mass production of such a large population, and as for the natives themselves, India is a tropical country; why should her people work indoors when they are healthier and happier working outdoors...
...year's tusslers were Ormel Hinkley Simpson, who rose from Lieutenant-Governor to fill the big chair when Governor Henry J. Fuqua died in 1926; Huey P. Long, a talkative, curly-headed bantamweight on the Public Service Commission; and U. S. Representative Riley Joseph Wilson, who tried to gain fame as a Mississippi flood controller...