Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggestive, but not wholly convincing. Nevertheless it is an interpretation that is well worth weighing, and the book is one that will amply repay careful study. The whole matter of the why and wherefores of the American Revolution is so complex that probably no single interpretation will ever gain undisputed authority among historians, and the present study is one that cannot be neglected by any, careful student of the constitutional origins of this country...
...following this decision of the Division of Modern Languages could come some reforms in administration and requirements calculated to give free play to and to promote individual initiative, the chances of the undergraduate of the future to gain an education would be increased some 100 percent over what they are today. And today they have been increased some 25 percent on what they were yesterday...
College students--not yet having attained intellectuality--rarely feel, this sympathy; in attempting to develop a closer understanding and cooperation with the working multitudes, the Dartmouth Club performs a vital service. In such a combination the masses gain direction, expression, prestige--while the "intellectual" who casts his lot with them acquires the support, the dignity, the political effectiveness without which his own talents are helpless...
Nevertheless, of all 21 parties in the late Reichstag, the Communist Party is one of the few which is expected to gain seats in May. It formerly had only 15 out of 459. But in the last year many middle-of-the-road voters are said to have gone sharply to the reactionary right or Communistic left...
...delighted to find that the abused children are not flayed for their gaming instincts. The love of taking a chance is so ingrained that even in these days people still risk pennies in subway slot machines where the possible gain is nothing and the probable loss therefore, comparatively large. The love of slot machines, however, may arise from another source. There have been rumors of people who ride up and down in the rear elevator of Widener Library whenever they go to the Reading Room merely for the animal satisfaction of pressing the buttons. This, at least, entails no pecuniary...