Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...easily is best, for she knows how to right herself. Of course, she is less comfortable for passengers than one who keeps an even keel in ordinary weathers; but by and large, she is the more seaworthy. The temptation to build ships that would not roll?in order to gain passengers at the expense of safety?is old, however. The Germans followed that line a while before the War. But the old temptation has fewer followers nowadays. With steam vessels, the foremost part of seamanship is to keep them headed into a storm. What danger then? Very little, unless...
...long ago, Theodor Fritsch, Editor of the anti-Semitic Hammer, called Max Warburg, head of the Hamburg banking house of that name, a "Secret Kaiser"; accused him and one Dr. Karl Melchior, together with Jewish financiers in general, of sacrificing patriotic interests for their own gain...
...well that Dr. Eliot has spoken frankly. Those prominent Jews who are behind the movement to repatriate their race can not be ignorant of the conditions Dr. Eliot has set forth. If the movement is to gain any-healthy hold upon sufficient number of Jews to make it a success, it will be through a general recognition of distinct advantages to be gained by a return to Palestine...
...Yale's gain and Harvard's loss. Boston Transcript...
From unofficial and, even at this date, incomplete reports, the National Association of Manufacturers compiled statistics showing the number of people who voted in the recent national election and giving a comparison with 1920: Votes Cast % of Eligible Voters 1924 30,093,232 52.8% 1920 26,646,273 49.1% Gain...