Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the principle of ruthless individualism and competition, that government is deemed best which offers to the few the greatest chance of individual gain...
...Never forget national Honor for private gain...
Besides this, I wish to gain strength and time for unfinished literary work. Some of this I should have delivered to the publishers two years ago. I can only hope to complete it when I am free from interruptions...
Although Columbia presented an almost unbeatable combination, the University was able to gain the decision in four of the matches. Captain Anderson, Lang, and Marshall, first three players on the Columbia team, all won their singles matches Captain Anderson easily defeating Ingraham, 6-3, 6-4. If it were not for the recent illness of Captain Anderson, his team would be almost sure of gaining the verdict in the approaching intercollegiate, and even with him out of the line-up, Columbia must still be in the reckoning...
Most of the passers-by were Harvard students or professors, except those who were caps. Only two of the latter seemed to be undergraduates. The straw hatters gained rapidly for a while, but this gain was discounted when the reporter realized that one man in a battered last year's straw was plodding back and forth between Holyoke House and a second-hand bookstore, each time disposing of a high stack of text books...