Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued to gain about three inches every year. At one time his mother, by standing tiptoe, could touch his shoulder, and his older sister could walk hand-in-hand with him without making him stoop. But no longer. Only comfortable way for him to motor is astride the car or in a truck. His suits require nine yards of cloth. Shoes, haberdashery and suits all must be specially made for him. His shoe size is 36 and shoemakers make much of him at their Chicago conventions...
...steel industry this week were expected to hit 84% of capacity, and talk was growing that 1937 would turn out to be a record year. Adding $6 per share, U. S. Steel stock closed the week at $114, and Bethlehem at around $95 per share showed a gain of $5. Though U. S. markets were closed for Washington's Birthday at the start of this week, the metal boom, roared on in London. Said one weary British metal broker at the close: "This has been the maddest day since...
Likewise encouraging was the showing of the weight men in the afternoon, for both Bort Littman and Steve Bronnan came in to gain second places in the shot and weight throws respectively, although both of them were well back of the winners, Yale's thrower John Harvard Castle and the Big Green's putter Geniawiez...
...virtue of their 33 to 29 victory over Yale Saturday, the Crimson hoopsters moved into undisputed possesion of second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League. Although trailing at the end of the first half, 21 to 18, Wes Fesler's men rallied early in the second period to gain their sixth league victory...
...possible shadow of doubt in the decisions of the circuit courts of appeal. Yet these very appeal courts, which eliminate much of the work the Supreme Court would otherwise have to look after, Mr. Roosevelt would remove from the course of important cases, in his misdi-rected efforts to gain a more rapidly functioning court of last resort...