Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived." 3) "It is unnecessary for a prince to have . . . good qualities . . . but it is very necessary [for him] to appear to have them. ... A prince ought, above all things, always to endeavor in every action to gain for himself the reputation of being a great and remarkable man." 4) "It is better to be adventurous than cautious, because fortune is a woman, and if you wish to keep her under it is necessary to beat and ill-use her; and it is seen that she allows herself...
...year entrants have the advantage of getting in smaller sections and having during their period of training two summers in which to obtain practical business experience. During these summer months they can gain familiarity with much of the routine and practical functions of their chosen branch of industry...
...some £2,800,000 within six months. On this point Horace Imber, advertising manager of the Daily Mail from 1912 to 1921 testified instructively: "Lord Northcliffe had the unbusinesslike policy of running a newspaper for the sake of news and not primarily for what he could gain from advertisers.... He maintained a fixed subordination of advertising space to news space.... When Lord Rothermere took control the space given to advertising was increased and much news was crowded out.... That was business. I do not echo Lord Rothermere's admirers in calling it genius...
...from the Ecclesiastical History written by the "venerable" Bede that we gain what knowledge there is of Cadman and for that matter of Bede himself. In a short biographical note at the end of the History he says in conclusion. "From the time of my admission to the priesthood to my present fifty-ninth year. I have endeavored . . . to make brief notes upon the Holy Scripture either out of the works of the venerable fathers, or in conformity with their meaning and interpretation." And the fact that he was ordained deacon at 19 allows that he was regarded as remarkable...
With this morning's issue of the CRIMSON, the student vagabond will no hangers be fount wandering over the pages with no definite home to come to after his journeying. From this morning on the vagabond will gain a definite place. Hereafter, he will appear on the editorial page from which base he will sally forth on his travels unrestricted by the exigencies of make...