Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiastic gathering in the Hemenway gymnasium Saturday evening. Superior technique displayed by the Columbia representatives in the lightweight classes gave the visiting grapplers a 11 to 3 lead at the end of the fourth match, Captain Joseph Lifrak '29 being the only member of the University team to gain a decision in the early part of the evening...
...contests in the 165-pound and unlimited classes were particularly exciting, both going to two overtime periods before the University wrestlers could gain a fall. In the former match, G. L. Graves '31, who has been forced to take off 10 pounds during the past week collapsed after winning a fall from his opponent at the end of 12 minutes and 35 seconds of fierce wrestling. W. H. Boldt '30 was likewise a victor in an overtime contest, forcing Cuneo, 230 pound football player, to carry the match into two overtime periods, finally throwing the Columbia grappler for a fall...
...later discarded, and the decennial debates in the House were often bitter. On one occasion, after a long speech by Daniel Webster, the Senate reversed the action of the House on purely mathematical grounds. If the House is to be kept at its present size of 435 members, any gain for one state will necessarily mean a loss for some other state, so that the need for a sound and fair method of apportionment is an urgent one. Cases can occur in which the use of a wrong method would affect half the states in the Union...
...seat) will make a sharp but probably futile point. He will submit that House seats should be allotted, not on a basis of mass population, but on a basis of the citizens in each State, the voting population. This idea will be hotly fought by California, which stands to gain perhaps six seats in a Reapportionment based on the 1930 census. California's population, like New York's, was swelled enormously between the census of 1910 and the restrictive immigration law of 1924, by immigrants who have not yet (and in the case of California's Orientals...
...phrase as "high academic distinction and good moral character" lies the danger that it may be used to the benefit of a general type of student whose preponderance in the College might appear to insure a balance perhaps acceptable. But the injustice to the candidate is apparent, and the gain of Harvard in the too-liberal employment of selective right is doubtful...