Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wholly greed that prompts this front and sacrifice. The thought is revolting. A gold rush is as much an opportunity to throw off the constantly increasing strain of civilization as one to gain wealth. The same urge that sends men toiling to the woods and streams for game whose value is rarely ever that of even the instruments that one employed to get it, sends them through a New Mexican blizzard to the town of Gold Dust. Men are more elemental than they know...
...gain in the world's stock of knowledge in all these cases has been so inestimable as greatly to outweigh the loss of one individual life--and in this lies the explanation of their immortality. Where there is no legacy of knowledge, and no possibility of it, the deliberate death of a scientist becomes little more than pointless suicide--magnificent, but futile and without vision...
...largest channel bass of 1925 will gain its captor a silver loving cup, mahogany based, 38 inches high, inscribed "Presented by Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, to the Palm Beach Anglers' Club." Since last year, the President has been an honorary member...
Intarvin, an artificial fat, has been fed to diabetic patients without the ill results attendant upon eating ordinary fats, allowing them to gain in weight and strength. It supplements and sometimes hastens the curative action of insulin. It is harmless even if taken continuously in quantity.-Dr. Max Kalin (the inventor), Dr. William J. Gies, Columbia University; Dr. Hattic L. Heft...
...great advantage for students entering at mid-years is that such men have during their period of training two summers in which to obtain practical business experience. During these summer months they can gain familiarity with much of the routine and practical functions of their chosen branch of industry...