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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Crimson drops this game, the odds will be strongly against them ever regaining the lead again. Cornell with 4 wins and two losses is not on Harvard's heels, and may gain a second place tie with the Stahlmen if they beat Yale today...

Author: By Theodore R. Barnett, | Title: Cindermen Journey to New Haven Strongly Favored; Nine Seeks Indian Scalps, EIL Leaa | 5/12/1939 | See Source »

...sent a group of 16-year-olds to the coal fields of Morgantown, W. Va., to learn how the other half lived. After exploring coal mines and living with Morgantown high-school youngsters for ten days, Lincoln's students returned to Manhattan to ponder what they had seen, gain two years in understanding and thinking power, by scientific tests (TIME, Oct. 31). Thereupon Lincoln School and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which financed the trip, decided to find out whether their educational experiment would work as well in reverse. Last week they took 13 Morgantown youngsters to Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Other Half | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Doors will open at 7:30 o'clock for those with special invitations and for Freshmen, who may gain admission on presentation of Bursar's, or Dining Hall, Cards. Upperclassmen will be admitted after...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EVA LE GALLIENNE ONE OF LUMINARIES AT ANNUAL SMOKER | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...that "moral rearmament," as proposed by the Oxford Movement, for example, would not be enough. "I mean," she wrote, "that, much as we may dislike to do it, it may be necessary to use the forces of this world in the hope of keeping civilization going until spiritual forces gain sufficient strength everywhere to make an acceptance of disarmament possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: ORACLE | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...athletics for all" will for once be captured. There will be a decisive de-emphasis of sports if by emphasis is meant playing to win--for the old grads and the Sunday columnists. There will be new emphasis in the sense of athletics for sport and for physical gain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWELFTH SPY | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

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