Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bill was much criticized in the Opposition press as being an election expedient to gain votes for Dr. Jarres, the Nationalist candidate. The Nationalists (Monarchists) hailed the bill with enthusiasm, as they had for months been telling their supporters that the bonds would be partially redeemed...
China suffers from the opium trade more than all other nations together, and she had everything to gain from the success of the conference. Her withdrawal was made only after desperate protest and when there was no prospect of establishing any understanding that would not legalize the drug trade for some years to come. European nations, she discovered, found the business too profitable to be abandoned. They pleaded the impossibility of preventing the trade, but, when faced with Japan's successful prohibition in Formosa, were forced to admit two significant facts: the traffic yields large tariff revenues in the colonies...
...This control of South America is only one outcropping of the imperialism of the United States. Our money has made us virtual owners of the world. We will continue to gain power in Mexico and elsewhere until finally at some rather far off date we get the licking that is coming...
...What could she possibly gain by aggression against anybody? War has no attraction for us. In recent years, we have seen too much of the misery...
...devote themselves to books from their nineteenth to their twenty-fifth year. The abhorrence of being called a "grind," has prompted many undergraduates to change their views about studies. This word is ever present on the tongues of those who consider the College as a place in which to gain extra-curriculum distinction. Whoever stigmatises his fellow undergraduate as a "grind," should run the risk of being called a more odious name, and just as that term is excluded from polite conversation, so should the ill-sounding word, "grind," be dropped from undergraduate vocabularies. Because he refuses to be conventional...