Search Details

Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

History 1 remains at the top of the list with a considerable edge on its nearest competitor. 830 Freshmen have elected it this year which marks a gain of two. Government 1 reveals but little change in its status of last year. It has 525 entrants rather than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: English 28, Economics A, Geology 1 Shows Sharp Increases Over '33, '34 | 9/28/1934 | See Source »

Sept. 26--William Green, President of the American Federation of Labor, said tonight that 10,834,000 persons were unemployed in August, a gain of 40,000 over July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

Trade union figures show a slight gain in fall activity this month...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salients in the Day's News | 9/27/1934 | See Source »

...have a foundation for other professions in case she was a failure in the film business. She studied cutting and carried script for her father. Lately she has been taking thyroid treatments and has lost 25 lb. Paramount was pleased but Mae West told her to gain weight for Belle of the Nineties. She likes to play heavies. She says that anyone can be an ingenue but to be a menace takes action. She does a lot of swimming at the Beach Club in Santa Monica and plays a little tennis. She gives the kind of parties at which people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 24, 1934 | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

...while the rule may seem insignificant, and its violation unimportant, yet when this violation becomes wholesale it of necessity leads to much injustice. Those concerns whose representatives solicit in the dormitories gain a great advantage over those more scrupulous who do not, and who lose a great part of that custom they might have obtained on merit, were all other considerations equal. Is it then right that they should be thus penalized for adhering to the letter of the law, while their less fastidious rivals reap their ill-gotten gains? Those who hunger and thirst after righteousness are not speedily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUPER-SOLICITUDE? | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

Previous | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | 116 | 117 | 118 | 119 | 120 | 121 | 122 | 123 | 124 | 125 | 126 | 127 | 128 | 129 | 130 | Next