Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likely to result in the formation of an endless cycle; if the proletarian is forcibly educated, and the bourgeois is kept from education, it will be but a short time until the situation is reversed, and each is in the other's shoes, which will result in no appreciable gain to the state as a whole...
Interest will be centered on the match between Ingraham and Howard. Last year, the Crimson see caught his opponent when he was off color, finding little difficulty in gaining a 6-3, 6-1 verdict. But this year the Princeton star has shown a decided improvement, and furthermore should have the psychological advantage peculiar to tennis of fighting with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Ingraham, on the other hand, has a tournament temperament which has seen him through many tight places. Nothing phases him. He is to all appearances nerveless...
...honest scullery maid, and the constantly tuxedoed viper who wrecks the home. If all these characters are transplanted, with local adaptations of course, into the original Osmauli, the inhabitanis of old Stamboul will discover themselves westernized with a vengeance--but unfortunately they will find presently that their consequent gain in culture and degree of civilization is almost negligible...
...interest which has been aroused by the award of these prizes of slight pecuniary value is significant. Most of the Utopias of social reformers have foundered upon the reef of man's inherent self-seeking; and the necessity of the spur of personal gain has come to be frankly recognized. The greatest works of art and literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress...
...called forth competitive activities noless rigorous than those induced in the greater world by the hope of pecuniary profit. The establishment of prizes, such as the Pulitzer and Carnegie awards whose significance is largely honorary, is a step toward substituting a more altruistic spur for the traditional goad of gain in the common walks of life. When the "man on the street" will strive as cagerly for such prizes as the student does for his major letter--or the graduate for his scholarship--the schemes of Bellamy and Wells may begin to be practicable...