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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most track enthusiasts know that shot putting is the art of overcoming gravity To do this one must combine speed, strength and weight, co-ordinating all three to gain the best possible form. When a shot putter learns his art there should be no strain. And yet I consider the shot put to be the most difficult of all field events to master thoroughly. In the hammer and discuss it is possible to gather momentum in the movements inside the seven foot circle. In the shot put the competitor operates from a dead start and must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Farrell Discourses Upon Shot Putting--Its History and Its Performers | 5/27/1926 | See Source »

...Foreign Commerce Department of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S. last week presented an array of statistical comparisons. It showed that on the 1925 list of U. S. imports, crude rubber stood first. Raw silk, coffee, cane sugar were second, third, fourth. Rubber gained in bulk as well as in value. Its total value imported was $429,705,000, a gain over 1924 of 146.6%. Its tonnage increased only 20.9%. (1924's price averaged 24? a pound, 1925's nearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Trade | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...silk was valued at $396,286,000, a 21% gain. (Rayon, artificial silk, increased 124.7%; silk waste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Foreign Trade | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...latter, however, retaliated going under the bridge and gradually pushed to the front again. With a third of a mile left to row Captain Winthrop put the Crimson stroke up to 40 and the University shell began to gain. But the leaders were not to be denied their victory, and Penn fighting off the Crimson spurt swept across the finish line with Tech still hanging on a bare half length behind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PENN AND M.I.T. LEAD CRIMSON CREW IN CHARLES REGATTA | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...report shows, moreover, that the number of students entering the University from high schools, has increased over 1916 in almost equal proportion to the gain in private preparatory school candidate over the total of that date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUDENTS IN COLLEGE COME FROM 832 SCHOOLS | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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