Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reply to those who pointed out that seven porters lost their lives in the unsuccessful attempt of 1922 and that Mallory and Irvine lost their lives this year, without the prospect of any material gain for either the climbers or the human race, he answered with a question: "Isn't it a goodish thing to run some risks, undergo some hardships for an ideal divorced from sordid considerations...
...American Legion Weekly decided to mark the passing of the first decade since the Great War flung the world into the Maelstrom of Mars*. It wrote to various individuals in various countries, asked them to reply to the question: "What did the World Gain by the World War?" Excerpts from the answers: Newton D. Baker, U. S. Secretary of War during the Wilson Administration: "I believe it is possible now to say that the world is at last convinced that the balance of power theory is an unstable basis for world peace and that international cooperation is the only other...
...Arthur W. Currie, ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Ex- peditionary Force, now Principal of McGill University: "By the World War we gained a truer appreciation and a better realization of war's unspeakable waste, its dreadful hardships, its cruel slaughter and its aftermath of loneliness, sorrow and broken hearts. We now know that as a means of solving the world's problems and removing international discord war is a delusion and a lie. We know that no matter how much a nation may desire to hold itself aloof and to keep apart from the struggle...
...feet tall, hearty, only 48 years old. He is a master of silence like his predecessor, Murphy. Unlike Murphy, he is also a persuasive speaker. This is not entirely an advantage. James Bryce in his standard work** declares : "It is, of course, a gain to a Ring to have among them a man of popular gifts, because he helps to conceal the odious features of their rule, gilding it by his rhetoric, and winning the applause of the masses who stand outside the circle of workers. However, the position of the rhetorical boss is less firmly rooted than that...
...Only the waning season can account for the descent upon the stage of a comedy like this. It represents the efforts of various groups to gain possession of a farm which contains a beauty clay and therefore becomes, for the purposes of farce, as precious as the Ruhr valley. The authoress, Katherine Browning Miller, manages to hammer out a witticism now and then by virtue of trying...