Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although beaten at both Yale and Princeton this year, blind Robert G. Allman, shifty 118-pounder, rose to new heights by planing undefeated Harvey Ross with a half-nelson and body hold. Ross, like almost every other Crimson grappler, found it impossible to gain the advantage, once down...
Inactive in competition since January 15, the Crimson five was far from top form Saturday night. If Fesler can whip the squad into condition by this week-end, Harvard should at least gain an even split in two games Friday and Saturday with Cornell and Columbia...
Offsetting the Dubinsky gain, A. F. of L.'s Teamster Tobin last week blamed the A. F. of L., in part at least, for the collapse of the peace negotiations. But the question of war and peace hung mostly on the division within the A. F. of L. itself. In the Executive Council a man's importance depends on the number of votes he can command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing...
...device enables Commander Ellsberg to put hackneyed remarks in the mouths of the characters that rob the book of authority without making its people seem any more real. Not by means of stale jokes cracked by the doomed, but by the simple facts of their plight do readers gain a sense of the tragedy of the Jeannette...
...supported by $1.000,000 contributed yearly by 70% of the industry, is now at work on improved furnaces, stokers, plastic cement from coal ashes, etc. Anthracite equipment dealers claim a 50% increase in sales in the first nine months of 1937 in 21 eastern cities against a 7% gain in oil burners...