Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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London's tailors had another grievance. After studying the clothes represented in the portraits, the editor of Tailor and Cutter spoke editorially for his trade as follows: "A portrait does not gain power by adding a coat which no self-respecting scarecrow would don. Nothing is added to the effectiveness of the canvas by omitting buttons, ignoring seams and maltreating collars and lapels." Of Artist Augustus John's Portrait of a Man he said: "A more graphic title would be Portrait of a Man in a Home-made Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester...
Harvard supporters thought this a lucky accident whereby the Crimson narsmen would gain the moral advantage of about a length's lead. It turned out very much the opposite, however, for Behrman brought his crew together admirably, and, raising the stroke tow or three points, again restored a driving rythm to his shell which made it regain the lost territory and go forging past the two Cambridge crews...
...subtracted from his Harvard loyalty; he may be a better man for being also a good Princeton man. To think anything else is to assume that colleges such as Princeton and Harvard are at war, or that there is a conflict of interest between them, so that the gain of the one must be at the expense of the other...
...Fundamentally, however, they are partners and not rivals. They share the same scholarly and educational purposes, and seek to contribute to the same nation the same type of trained youth. What is a gain for one such college is also a gain for the other. Loyalty to such a college, being loyalty to the cause which that college shares with others of a like mind, extends itself naturally to these allies and so finds itself renewed and confirmed." Daily Princetonian
...Anne of Cleves, a plain German, no longer young. Henry had seen only Holbein's portrait of her. He married her largely to gain influential friends against France. Seeing her for the first time, he "disliked her person." He went through with the ceremony, set her aside...