Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parlor and adjoining rooms are being decorated with greens and the customary Christmas tree and Yuletide wreaths. The plan is to gain as an appropriate and festive Christmas atmosphere as possible to take the place of the students' homes...
Newcomer No. 2. Senator Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana was appointed to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Samuel M. Ralston, Democrat. Senator Robinson represents a gain of one vote by the Republicans. He was chosen because Governor Jackson of Indiana is a Republican...
...entire bill passed the Chamber by a majority of 28. Next day it passed the Senate by the overwhelming vote of 205 to 26, while senator after senator declared: "I vote in deference to your judgment, M. Briand." Former President Millerand, who blocked M. Briand's attempts to gain security for France at Cannes, was all but thrust from the Senate when he attacked the bill. The excited senators shouted: "Renegade! . . . Traitor...
Immediately upon the return of Chancellor Luther and Foreign Minister Stresemann from London, where they signed the Locarno Treaties (see INTERNATIONAL), the Cabinet of the Reich resigned. Chancellor Luther had been obliged to promise that his Government would take this step in order to gain sufficient votes for the Locarno Treaties in the Reichstag (TIME, Nov. 30), the understanding being that the Socialists and others who came to the Treaties' rescue would be rewarded with posts in the next Cabinet. Of course the fact that the three Nationalists in the Cabinet had previously resigned as a protest against...
...past only graduates have attended the meetings and the functions of their annual gatherings, and only faculty members have addressed the assemblies. As a result the assemblies have held little appeal for graduates returning to gain a better understanding of undergraduate life, and the practice of holding Graduates Day was discontinued last year...