Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, the debate raged as one after another, the 35 amendments to the Underwood Bill were acted upon. Mr. Underwood intimated that he believed a mild sort of filibuster was going on in order that the opponents of his bill might gain time to rally their forces and, perhaps, in order to keep the Postal Pay Bill off the floor for a similar reason...
...cent were graduates of public high schools while the remaining 44 per cent received their preparation in some private institution. This would seem to indicate better chances of admission for the private school graduates. When compared with last year's Freshman class, the percentages of men failing to gain admission this year from the two classes of schools are shown to be still more in favor of the private schools than in the class...
Results. Provisional returns showed that the extreme Parties (Bolsheviki and Ludendorffites) had been decisively defeated and that the Social Democratic Party had made equally decisive gains; otherwise, taking into consideration the increased vote, the position remained the same. Almost complete returns: Party Seats Gain Loss Social Democratic . , 130 30 0 Nationalist 114 8 0 Centre 68 3 0 Democratic 32 4 0 German Peoples' 50 6 0 Popular 14 0 IS Bavarian Peoples' 19 3 0 Communist 45 0 17 Other Parties 17 0 Totals 489 54 35 Elected. Most conspicuous of those elected was Grand Admiral Alfred...
...director of physical education, although the 1928 men who have signed up for this sport number only 160 in contrast to 230 at the beginning of the winter season last year. Swimming and basketball come next in order with 123 and 106 respectively. Basketball has made the largest proportional gain of any sport within the range of Freshman winter activities...
...Team A victory was a decisive one. The University players lost only four games during the afternoon's play. W. P. Dixon '25 was hard pressed to win over W. E. Howe, but managed to gain the decision after five games...