Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advantages of a year of study and travel in Europe stand out in undimmed brilliance beside these minor academic and somewhat jingoistic objections. A student concentrating in the language or history of one of the European countries can gain at best a second-hand and unsatisfactory command of the field by study in America. A year of study in the country of his choice would give the student a knowledge of the people and their customs, and a profound and intimate command of the field. With such training the language requirements could be met sincerely, not by the current method...
...Craster, Bodley's Librarian from the Bodleian Library at Oxford, will be in Cambridge today to inspect the Widener Library. Additions and repairs are to be made ou the Bodley Library, and Mr. Craster has come to the United States to study the construction of numerous American libraries and gain some worthwhile ideas to take back to England...
...make yachting a great sport..... It is a business-a great thriving business-and we in England . . . can never win the America's Cup until we make it a business, too." He said that he had flown a protest flag in the last race principally to gain a hearing for his previous protest, had withdrawn it because after leading at the start, Endeavour had been fairly beaten in the race. To newshawks he announced that he would never challenge for the Cup again. While a party at Newport's Clambake Club broke up in a row over whether...
...most effective in nabbing the rather large number of ball carriers that got by the front line. Offensively, Litman showed that he has not yet lived up to the coaches' expectations. He is fast, has a lot of drive, but somehow is not yet a steady bet for a gain. Don Jackson, at fullback, didn't have very much chance to display his talents on the offensive...
...England institutions do not confirm the optimistic dispatch from Chicago that "a sharply rising tide of students flooded the colleges and universities, during September." Enrolments hereabout are virtually what they were in 1933. Some colleges have had slight increases, others small losses. Nowhere is there visible the average gain of 10 per cent reported in the West...