Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hailsham] himself is satisfied that Lord Burghley takes an active interest in public life and is well fitted to hold the office. . . . I consulted His Lordship before making the appointment. . . . It was his opinion that a young man of standing should receive an opportunity in early life to gain experience in public affairs...
...Russia, however, one may profess pure Communism without being able to gain admittance to the Communist Party, a rigidly exclusive Oligarchy whose members alone have the right to hold public office...
...Stadium question is a compromise, with concessions to two opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
...George Lindsay Holford's collection. The throng included Dutch bidders eager to retrieve native masterpieces, English bidders eager to keep the best of the Holford collection in England, and American bidders, most powerful of all, who were only eager to buy the pictures and sell them for gain. When the sale began these rival groups sent prices up at the rate of $15,000 a minute. The first 60 paintings went for $1,800,000; Rembrandt's Man with a Cleft Chin, probably a portrait of his son, brought $200,000; his picture of a Man holding...
...educate their students up to college methods of study. Harvard may properly be said to rely on neither of these expedients; the student is confronted with thoroughly college methods at the beginning of his Freshman year and left largely to work out his own adjustment to them. While the gain in self reliance and educational maturity of this process is manifest, the difficulties involved are nevertheless great enough to prevent some Freshmen ever emerging from them at all, and to subject many others to a period of disheartening struggle...