Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detriment than an aid to their people and it is a mistake to suppose that the opposition which might be offered to a policy of general dethronement would be such as to prevent the movement from being carried out. The Indian native rulers squander the wealth they gain by force from their subjects in performances of a highly Sybarite nature...
...only natural," continued Mr. Nugent, "that this type of play will continue to gain popularity. College life epitomizes the spirit of youth in this country, as in no other. It may not as yet be completely representative of the younger people of today but it is certainly an highly individual and thoroughly American theme...
...class C race the 1929 court team was unable to gain any advantage when it dropped a 3 to 2 decision to the strong Walk Over team on the University Squash Courts last Saturday. The Freshmen are still in fifth place, eight games behind the league Harvard Club squad...
...made me a member. It was a beautiful and most welcome hospitality. It is renewing my youth; it takes 33 years off from my age and associates me with the healthy and vigorous maturity of the class of '89. Dr. Faust sold himself to the devil to gain the results, and the use he made of it sent him to Hell. But the inspiration and joy of camaraderie with the class of '89 is the full realization of the Yale spirit...
...Bismarck was extremely anxious that the text of the Treaty of Berlin should remain secret until the last possible moment. Months in advance De Blowitz had set to work to gain an ascendancy over one of the Iron Chancellor's secretaries. The secretary placed the information which De Blowitz desired in the lining of his own hat, and each day the rotund correspondent sought and found what he wanted in the dark checkroom of the restaurant at which he and the secretary dined-carefully apart. It is history that the Times secured a "beat" over every other newspaper...