Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About every two years the flag officers of the Navy complete a tour of duty, are shuffled up and dealt anew to the chief naval commands so that they may gain experience in many posts. Last week Charles Francis Adams, new Secretary of the Navy, announced the first of the changes due this year. Chief among them were...
...decision of the Administration to sell arms to the Federal government of Mexico and continue the embargo on all shipments to the rebels. In the case of a country chronically torn by civil war, the populace is the eventual loser thru the wholesale destruction of property and the gain to law and order through a speedy settling of the strife is certainly of primary importance to the United States as well, with its large commercial interest in danger...
...three persons designated to receive a peerage one has died in the meantime. No matter. The dead man's son, Urban R. Broughton, will receive that to gain which his late, rich father, Urban H. Broughton, perpetrated so many philanthropies-including the donation of Ashridge Park to the nation...
...large number of close games have featured the intramural basketball series, and as the season draws near the close, the various teams have been battling to gain the top positions...
...Daly's articles will be as specific a presentation of this subject as is possible. The author and the CRIMSON refuse to guarantee unconditional success to every follower of the series; but they can reasonably prophesy that readers will gain an intelligent understanding of important matters in contemporary business...