Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Washington, one each. In addition of course, these states would gain (and the others lose) a like number of votes in the electoral college, which chooses the President...
...Centrist parties which for years have held the balance of power did not materially gain or lose in strength last week. Therefore, they will be compelled by the sweeping Socialist gains to admit to power, at last, the Socialist party which has always been largest in Republican Germany but has generally been held down by a coalition of smaller rivals...
...about a half dozen young men in tuxedos. It will demand and assume a voice in the argument. This contingency will heighten the competition between the two teams by swelling the ranks of the opposition. If something of the intercollegiate flavor is lost by thus admitting the commoner, the gain is a notable one, along the road leading to the conception of debate as an exercise followed not entirely for its own sake, nor solely as a means to clarification of ideas, but for its forceful powers of conviction--the only purpose of any polemic...
...German people have always been fond of chasing will of the wisps, but with great care to been both feet out of the marsh. Disarmed Germany has everything to gain from world peace and world disarmament, commercial Germany has everything to gain by reacquiring the world's friendship. The way was long from the tales of grue some that made the from pages of 1918 hideous is the acclaim that the Bremen's heroine crew has won in 1928. Whatever Germany's time in doffing her cuirass and carrying a dove on her wrist, she has succeeded beyond cavil...
...Hardie '30 has made a tremendous gain during the past few contests to raise his batting average from .385 to .409, to take the lead from Captain H. W. Burns '28. Hardie, by virtue of a triple in the seventh inning of the encounter with the Wolverines, increased his total of three-baggers to six, still holding the lead in that department. His triple, scoring W. W. Lord '28 broke the 5 to 5 deadlock and started his team on the road to victory. Burns, who took the batting honors from John Prior 29 after the first few games...