Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with Brown's powerful wrestling team this evening at 8 o'clock in the Hemenway Gymnasium in what promises to be one of the best meets of the season. Brown is bringing a team of undefeated veterans, and the Crimson will be taxed to the utmost in order to gain a victory...
...better conditions of corporate control, Professor Cunningham said, "This decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission is in direct accord with Professor Ripley's contentions. It is obvious that if only ten percent of a large issue of stock carries voting rights, a group of small minority holders can gain control of the whole thing, since all they need is 51 percent of ten percent. It was against this feature of the merger, as much as any other that the unfavorable decision was aimed. Professor Ripley, who was connected with the Commission in an advisory capacity, is thus supported...
...were permitted under the same restrictions to work at the rate of three courses during their senior year, benefited greatly by the privilege. Of the 17 men selected, two got degrees summa cum laude, eight magna cum laude, and six cum laude. Only one failed to gain distinction...
...Increase of the corporate income tax from 12½% to 13½% by vote of 42 to 35 (compensating gain in revenue...
...exist. . . . Can you imagine a war proclaimed by referendum? . . . I do not tell you, O people, that you are as gods. As I love you truly, so I should say to you that you are dirty, you must arise and cleanse yourselves; you are ignorant, therefore set yourselves to gain instruction. . . . Horny hands are not enough to prove a man capable of guiding a state. . . . We must abandon the great phrase of 'Liberty.' There is another . . . 'Discipline'! . . . Liberty is not an end, it is a means. . . . If by 'Liberty' be meant the right to spit upon the symbols of Religion...