Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Latest reports returned the Conservatives with 267 seats, Laborites with 277, Liberals with 109, Independents 95, showing a loss of 63 seats for the Conservatives, a gain of 93 for the Labor Party, a loss of 21 and nine respectively for the Liberals and Independents...
...crowns (two shillings and sixpence, also known as half a dollar)-all these, though now in circulation, will bear new designs. The three-penny and sixpenny coins, respectively a little smaller and a little larger than a U. S. dime, will lose the crown on the reverse side and gain a confusion of acorns, oak branches & oak twigs; the obverse side will retain the King's head. The larger coins will also retain the head on the obverse sides but the half-crown will lose its royal coat of arms and the motto, Honi Soit Qui Mal Pense (Evil...
...Institute is a trailer to the late John Pierpont Morgan's decision that competing iron and steel manufacturers cease cut-throat competition. To gain ,that end he persuaded Judge Gary to create the U.S., Steel Corp. The judge fashioned an industrial juggernaut. But the wheels lacked a few spokes. All iron & steel men would not go into the assembly. In 1901 the great machine began to move. Then the whiffletree flew off. "Charlie" Schwab, long the Corporation's first president, resigned in 1903. He, shrewd, hard and forthright, would not swing with the shrewd, hard and subtle Judge...
There are certain things which it is necessary to possess in order to gain culture, which is the end of education, and these are a foundation of facts. It is these which the lectures are designed primarily to supply. All the personal contacts with one's tutor, the polishing off of the little niceties of knowledge are the whipped cream, the icing of the cake. The nourishment must come elsewhere, and that the tutorial system can supply it as well as the lectures seems to the Vagabond very doubtful. When a balance between the two is reached--sometime--when...
...audience is a collaborative partner in any play, and the type of play which will be shown is the type they vote for by buying tickets. I agree that technically plays have improved, but culturally they have sunk, and the cultural loss in the technical gain...