Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Under the census completed last spring the population of the Soviet Union is 146,304,931, a gain of 15,000,000 in the past six years. The trend to the cities has been marked...
...book is not indispensable to the onlooker but he will gain much by reading it if he wants to know how a team is really molded into shape, and it will amuse one for an evening as do all books that tell the story of football heroes and of "never-to-be-frogotten" games and plays...
...other, extending back diagonally across the field. At the signal the two lines ran forward, converged at the captain's post and kept on in a diagonal direction, gradually turning to form a wedge behind the apex of which the runner was safe for a 20 or 30 yard gain...
...most significant and encouraging of these is the increase in candidates for distinction and honors. This gain is in fact the goal of the Harvard system. It is also the most material sign of the times. Because such an increase has been steadily reported since the plan was inculcated, it has come to be expected and its significance minimized by the casual observer to whom the words, "Figures show increase in candidates for Distinction", become an annual chant. Before last year when it was necessary to limit Senior candidates for distinction to those men who had attained a Group Four...
Matters were left last week with a J. G. White representative, who sailed for England to interview the British Foreign Office in the hope of securing its consent to the undertaking; for it is held by the U. S. corporation that the Sudan has more to gain than to lose by the dam's construction...