Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gushing home in Brookline, Mass. Still following the parental pattern, he registered at Boston University's Law school. Soon, however, he rebelled at living on an allowance from his family. James has the three ambitions common to most of the Roosevelts: 1) to get married, 2) to gain economic independence, 3) to become President of the U. S. Having attained the first he set out to get the second. Through the dean of the Law School he met a Boston insurance agent named Victor de Gerard-a onetime Cossack captain who escaped from Soviet Russia...
...last week reported the United Stewardship Council, representing 23 U. S. and Canadian churches. The council's report bore out the familiar U. S. dogma that country folk are more religious than city people; churches with rural constituents showed the greatest increase in giving. Highest per cent gains were in the Church of the Brethren, 16%, and the Church of the Nazarene, 13%. The Southern Baptists gave $2,300.120 more than the year before, an 8% increase. Next biggest dollar gain was in the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A.-$2,158,208, a 5% rise...
Tests for vision, steering and vigilance, are to be included and of course the bureau expects to gain important data on women's reactions. The name of the lucky Harvard graduate who is to make the tests was withheld for diplomatic reasons, but the girls were assured of two things by the bureau. His suit will be pressed and his hair will be cut, for the bureau is paying for both...
...Positive Christianity!" thundered Martin Niemoller from his pulpit on the Tenth Sunday after Trinity last year. "It [the Jewish people] bears a curse throughout the history of the world because it was ready to approve of its Messiah just as long and as far as it thought it could gain some advantage for its own plans and its own aims from Him, His words and His deeds. It bears a curse because it rejected Him and resisted Him to the death when it became clear that Jesus of Nazareth would not cease calling [the Jews] to repentance and faith, despite...
...preliminary to the Varsity game, the Freshman quintet will attempt to gain its sixth victory and get back to the 500 mark when it tangles with Governor Dummer Academy at 7 o'clock...