Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Writing in L'Eclair, Paris journal, le marquis Boni de Castellane, once the erring husband of Anna Gould (now Marquise de Talleyrand-Perigord, Duchesse de Sagan), urged France to sell her colonies in order that she might gain strength as a nation. He held that some of the colonies may be lost anywhere and that it is but common sense to sell them, as Napoleon I sold Louisiana (for 60,000,000 francs*), before their loss was an established fact...
...states in road building, etc., on a 50-50 basis (the U. S. giving a certain amount to spend in certain ways for certain purposes, provided the state will contribute an equal amount). He condemned it because it was a way for the Federal Government to gain control over state activities in a manner never contemplated by the framers of the Constitution. He attacked it also because it was unfair in its operation: in that Nevada, at one extreme, paying $409,000 in taxes to the U. S., receives $886,000 in Federal aid (216.7%); in that New York...
John Coolidge visited with his grandfather at Plymouth, Vermont, where he shingled the roof. His 1925 height was measured off against the doorjamb, and showed a gain of ½ inch?...
...stirred the people to revolt nonviolently against the British. The Swaraj* movement began. He started a newspaper, the Narayana, to aid the cause. He attacked the white officials as a class and he attacked most bitterly the domineering merchants who had, he alleged, come to India for ill-got gain. But his attachment to the King-Emperor never wavered in the most difficult moments. All that he wanted was freedom for Indians within "the most glorious empire in history...
...millions that inhabit the maritime and adjacent provinces or, conveniently, conscious China, it is otherwise. They have felt the effects of foreign domination and foreign exploitation of their resources, and they have resented the presence of aliens whom they believe to be in China solely for their own gain and whom they rightly or wrongly regard as intruders...