Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese made one other major gain. With the help of Prince Te, a renegade Mongol who has long been a headache to the Nanking Government, Japanese troops, mainly from Manchukuo, battered their way from the North into Kalgan, the capital of Chahar on the Peiping-Suiyuan railroad. Ultimate aim of the Japanese was to take over the entire length of this railroad, thus thrusting a Japanese wedge between China and possible assistance from Sovietized Inner Mongolia...
Harvard has a capable Dramatic Club which presents several successful plays annually and offers interested men an opportunity to gain experience in the field of the theatre...
...Most of them," replied the Vagabond in all seriousness, "possess to a striking degree the virtue of sincerity. They have come to Harvard to get as much out of it as they can. Soon they discover that the way to gain the best from Harvard is to give of their best to Harvard. Sticking closely to their work, these become the academic, athletic, and extra-curricular leaders of their Class. Others there be who aren't concerned much with giving. They don't gain much. Naturally, they make little impression on Harvard, and nobody at Harvard really cares much about...
Everybody knows that no criminal has any legal protection against the publication of the facts of his conviction. Murderer Durkin's chief hope for an injunction was therefore based on an unusual Illinois statute which makes it unlawful to exhibit for pecuniary gain criminal or deformed persons. Federal Judge J. Leroy Adair pondered, decided "exhibiting" meant displaying the person as on a vaudeville stage, refused the injunction. Benton & Bowles's Manhattan publicity department shot out an exultant news release claiming "freedom of speech in commercial broadcasting was upheld for the first time in radio history." Promptly Murderer Durkin...
Most positive proponent of the gliding theory is University of Michigan's Ichthyologist Carl Leavitt Hubbs, who published his observations in the annual report of the Smithsonian Institution for 1935. He testified that "flying fishes gain the momentum to get into the air with their rigid wings by a surface taxi of from 5 to 15 yards at a speed of about 10 yards a second, comparable to the speed of the best sprinters. This speed is attained by a sculling action of the tail fin. . . . To attain, the speed necessary to get into the air, an average...