Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composed of those who fear the mournful numbers of mathematics in the matter of taking off the mathematics requirement, and five into the depths of philosophy in full retreat. The other class is composed of those who are either concentrating in Philosophy or Psychology or else are eager to gain an introduction to Philosophy by the historical method. This class generally leaves the course little more enlightened than the first...
English jumped from 121 concentrators in 1932 on the day after applications were due to 142 this year. History too had a gain of about 20. Biology jumped from 24 to 52: Sociology from 18 to 40: Classics from 9 to 16: and Engineering Sciences from 17 to 41. This latter gain is largely the result of transfers of men in the Engineering School to the College so that they may live in the Houses. For the first time since 1930 there is a concentrator in Semitic languages...
...Vaskos' stand was the outgrowth of a three-month fight by Westchester County doctors, lawyers and welfare workers to gain custody of two-year-old Helen Vasko long enough for surgeons to remove the child's left eye. Last January in Grasslands Hospital it was discovered that she had a malignant tumor on the retina, that she would die as soon as the growth reached her brain, perhaps within a month...
Englewood got up a five-piece band, led a parade to Hyde Park High School to gain recruits. Unsuccessful, the marchers proceeded to the home of Acting Mayor Frank J. Corr, crying "Pay our teachers!'' and flourishing banners inscribed "Teachers want R. F. C. payroll loans at 3%. No Banks. . . . Sixty million dollars was paid to the unemployed. What did the teachers...
...November 1932 he rushed in as master of Errett Lobban Cord's proxy fight to gain control of Aviation Corp...