Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...card will be necessary to gain admittance but this can be obtained without coat either at the Church during the day or at Parish House...
...German, this must work against giving credence to McMahon. On the other hand, numerous European observers consider that the fanatic Nazi secret terror squads who have done so many murders in Eastern Europe work on the assumption that Germany has nothing to lose and something to gain from any sudden shock to one of the regimes with whom Adolf Hitler is trying to make headway with his demands for colonies and land. Frequent have been charges that Nazis instigated the assassination of Yugoslav King Alexander. Sick almost unto death of a strange poison lay last week Rumania's greatest...
...some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal repair stations where citizens of Los Angeles may take their electric clocks, have them adjusted free of charge so that they will not gain twelve minutes every hour on Boulder Dam current...
...mangled quotation from Shakspere as its introduction. A. P. Herbert has made a collection of strange and unusual law-cases involving outworn precedents and statutes, which are often ridiculously funny and usually point a good moral. Herbert's first case is the funniest, and from it you may gain an idea of the manner of all the rest. It is "Tiurib, Rumble, and Others v. The King and Queen"--Fish Royal. Tinrib, Rumble and others bring suit against the King and Queen for the removal of a whale which has been cast ashore near the town of Pudding Magna...
...four others are chosen who alone are eligible for the Sophomore competition. Three men are chosen from these to be Varsity, Junior Varsity and Freshman managers in their Senior year. Thus, in the direct run of football managing, only those who take part in their Freshman competition can gain one of the final offices...