Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...human brain is imagination--the ability to see things as they are and not as they appear to be. Fact is the raw material on which imagination works. Knowledge is only the beginning of wisdom; imagination is power. The chief aim of Harvard College is not so much to gain knowledge of this or that subject as it is to gain the power to understand. Growth in understanding means the strengthening of the imagination...
...growth, with its constantly increasing proofs of its deep meaning in the fundamental problems of nature and human life, it will become steadily clearer to faculty and students that an introduction to geology is indispensable to every cultivated man. The existing rules of distribution permit all Harvard undergraduates to gain contact with the subject. Concentration in geology is another matter...
Several of his friends, among them Compton Mackenzie and John Masefield, persuaded him to come to this country to gain new themes on which to base stories, and to study the people who form one of the largest groups which reads his stories...
...American universities today are run by capitalists," added Mr. Nearing. "The working class does not have a chance, as do the people in Russia, to become cultured. All men are born as socialists, but the fortunate ones who are able to gain pecuniary incomes soon become capitalists and forget about the vast majority of those who depend on them. Were today's capitalist however, to be come suddenly poor, he too, would revert to Socialism...
Churches and schools do not seek or gain from the stage the aid rendered by moving pictures. This is the latest phase of the growth of an industry whose rise is more romantic and dramatic than the stories which it presents on its screens...