Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Green for his ninth term, went strongly on record as "opposed to all forms of so-called racketeering within or without the labor movement." Declared the convention: "More and more do we find those of criminal tendencies and unconcerned in the well being of the wage-earners endeavoring to gain control of our trade unions and under its cloak promote selfish if not criminal purposes...
...world's output of gold has mounted steadily. Figures published last week by American Bureau of Metal Statistics showed that October production was 2,033,000 oz., an 18,000-oz. gain from September, a 180,000-oz. gain from October 1931. Canadian production for the first nine months was 2,271,000 oz. against 1,974,000 in the same period of 1931, 1,497,000 in 1930. October gold production in the U. S. was 255,000 oz. against 246,000 oz. in September...
...there is a golden book, the vade mecum of everything worth keeping by in life, it is the memories of men known. This is the Vagabond's creed. Today his spirit will haunt old McKinlock, and perhaps will gain, as William Butler Yeats himself was the gainer from those afternoons at the stable beside Kelmscott House...
...stock are such books as you will require in your courses, especially those in English literature. The value of reading these famous books in early editions cannot be denied. The reading of Pope, Prior, Addison, Johnson, Goldsmith, Sterne, Wordsworth, Byron, and similar authors will gain greatly in interest, you will discover, if done in editions contemporary with the writers. Our wide stock enables us to serve you with a great price range...
...Captain Bob ("Kewpie") Smith, a 172-lb. left guard and Left End Anderson, a graceful and adroit pass-catcher who often finds four men assigned to keep him under cover. Quarterback Charlie Soleau has huge thick legs which have this season enabled him to average an 11-yd. gain per play. Colgate statistics for the season: 99 first downs to opponents' 21; 1,581 yd. to 255; 45 completed passes to 13; 264 points...