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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the superior playing of von Stade dominated the play, the Crimson horsemen had the edge in quicker turning ponies and were able to gain a 7 to 0 lead early in the game...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Trio Defeats Eli Horsemen 13-5 at Armory | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

Captain Harkness felled one more victim, Robert Clarke, in his campaign to gain the intercollegiate title, as Louis Ach, in the 126-pound class, was the only other Crimson winner, earning a decision against Louis Hanman of the Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIS BEAT GRAPPLERS 15-11, AS YARDLINGS TIE | 3/7/1938 | See Source »

...pound division is held down by Louis Ach, a Junior, who won against Springfield and Penn but lost other matches. His place was taken early in the year by Sophomore Lou Daily, raw and inexperienced but determined. Ach has progressed rapidly during the last year and may gain honors as a Senior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

...outline of the work of the succeeding conferences bemoaned the fact that selfish nations have caused retrogressions by refusing to arbitrate unless they would gain. In spite of the predominance of this feeling at the Santiago meeting in 1923, which marked the crisis in Pan American affairs, definite preparation appeared for improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former President Alfaro of Panama Relates Progress of Pan Americanism | 3/1/1938 | See Source »

...corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed amid a shower of glass on the editor's desk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: ANNIVERSARY | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

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