Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of his fellow priests (and most Protestant clergymen) were hesitant or fearful. As early as 1933 he prophesied from his pulpit: "A state based on right, which strives from the first for a peaceful solution, must win the victory over a state based on might, which seeks to gain right with bloody weapons." In 1942 he smuggled out to the Vatican a detailed denunciation of Hitler's "war against Christianity...
...tutors are unanimous in belittling student fears of "having a House Dean snooping on my cocktail parties. . . "Pointing out that much discipline has always been taken meted out in the Houses. Housemasters feel that this side of a tutor's function has been overemphasized, and that a student will gain by having at least one man on the Administrative Board who knows...
Meanwhile trouble came when the University denied Professor George P. Baker '87, head of the 47 Workshop, a new drama building. He offered to raise the money himself, but the Administration clamped down. Harvard's loss was Yale's gain, as lured by the promise of funds. Baker went to New Haven and established the Yale Drama chool. Dean Briggs gave Baker a farewell gift and the Workshop held a final meeting entitled. "The Last Aot." The CRIMSON ran a black-bordered Memoriam Box expressing sympathy to the Workshop family "on the loss of its father, George Pierce Baker...
...always claimed that Forever Amber, her lusty epic of Restoration England, is no novel. The question before the court: should the $165,000 Kathleen got for movie rights to Amber be taxed as author's income or, at a lower rate, as a non-author's capital gain? The judges' ruling: "The book was written . . . primarily because she enjoyed" it, not with a publication "purpose in mind." To Capital-Gainer Winsor and former husband (No. 1 of three) Robert Herwig, the court awarded a 1945 tax refund of $26,358.72 each...
...well in keeping with the spirit of the day. But too much has happened in the past twenty-five years to permit graduating seniors still to hope that through some method their efforts might be means to a greater end. Lowell presented a vague rationalization for worldly gain. Conant likewise has a practical philosophy, but one with practical goals too. He saw the preservation of democracy as the end, and the work of the reformer as the means to this...