Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Willie Keeler is another matter. Few Hollywood producers dare strike whimsical notes on the polymorphism of the ant, the physical advantage the paramecium holds over the amoeba. But in the capable hands of Henry Fonda & Joan Bennett, top Wanger stars, and an able cast, / Met My Love A gain's invertebrate allegories, its academic ups & downs, its ten changing years and its sopping-wet windup are invariably diverting, variably brilliant...
Employment in business and industry only is the qualifying distinction of the Office's activity. By definition, therefore, graduate students in law, medicine, education, etc. will find little to gain by registering for placement. These students, on the other hand, who are graduates in business, science, or engineering are encouraged to use the Alumni Placement Office as one among other sources of employment...
Liberal and labor groups will also consider plans for introducing in the State Congress measures to raise the compulsory school age to 16 years, gain the right of women to serve on juries. They have declared themselves against biennial sessions of the Legislature and in favor of the Civil Rights Bill...
...meantime the waitresses have forged ahead in their own campaign and will vote on the reports of their representative, Joseph Stefani at a meeting Wednesday. Still confident that a signed agreement would climax labor activity in the dining halls, leaders said that would make "another try" to gain recognition before releasing statements...
Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) had to tell lies. She did not always gain by lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter...