Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report last week, shook a warning finger at non-carrier holding corporations which gain control of two or more competing railroad systems. Congress was asked to make a "thorough investigation" of this latest corporate custom by which the I. C. C. feared its plan for rail consolidations "is very likely to be partially or even wholly defeated." The Commission admitted that for such a new threat it could not find an appropriate remedy...
...must admit the extreme novelty of the experiment. It is an upward step in human progress; but there is no practical gain, for it is already accepted that two cups of black Waldorf coffee guaranteed insomnia and a finished thesis. The gallons of steaming fluid which will be consumed might better be sold to shivering football spectators or sent out at midnight to those who grind exceeding slow. Nor can one underestimate the possibility of fatal error and the danger of a total waste of the investigator's time if the frothy decaffeinated stuff from Childs' is used. That...
There will be an informal contest held in the middle of December at which all new candidates will have an opportunity to gain experience and conclude their work before Christmas...
...much to the fact that the traditional rival was beaten but that the Harvard team had fulfilled earlier predictions of latent strength and coordination. The defeat of a major rival in these days is only part of a composite goal that Harvard teams strive for and usually gain. To produce an unbeaten team is no longer the all in all of Harvard athletic policy nor the sole aim of Harvard supporters. For it is most certainly true that the idea of sports for the sake of sports is ever gaining a larger following among college students in the East...
...Celian Ufford '19, Instructor in English, and F. C. Packard, Jr. '20, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, members of the debating team will lend their services to Phillips Brooks House when the occasion demands. By this arrangement, it is expected that both groups will profit. The speakers will gain valuable experience delivering lectures before strange audiences, while Phillips Brooks House will be aided in is outside work. Although the teams have not yet spoken, their first opportunity will probably come within two weeks...