Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gain is only seeming. Slowly social forces resume their course. Reaction gains power. Reason steps in. Emotions rest. . . . Within a decade or a generation, social progress is about to where it would have been under normal process of growth...
...Singles Championship at Forest Hills last week had very little to add. A leg injury forced Defending Champion Wilmer Allison to withdraw his entry. The rest of the seeded players included Jacques Brugnon and three young Frenchmen performing in the U. S. for the first time to gain experience; that coterie of second-flight U. S. stars, like Sidney Wood, Bryan Grant, Frank Parker and Gregory Mangin, who long ago made it clear that their playing would never justify their potentialities; and the latest schoolboy sensation from California, 18-year-old Robert Riggs of Los Angeles, who has won eight...
...deed affecting 46,000 firms and the daily lives of 1,300,000 workers was done last week by Benito Mussolini. Shrilled Italian newsorgans: "This is II Duce's method of proving to Italian workers that they would have nothing to gain from Communism and are better off under Fascism...
...Camera lost it to Baer. In 1935 Baer lost it to James J. Braddock who, of his preceding 25 fights, had contrived to win only ten. To enable Braddock, whose shortcomings were increased by the unanimous if somewhat unreasonable sports-page definition of his character as "colorless," to gain a living from the title he had so unexpectedly acquired, was the job of the Irish champion's Jewish manager, wily little Joe Gould. An unemployed dockworker a few months before he won the title, Braddock has since totally refrained from fighting while making $150.000 out of exhibition bouts, refereeing...
...paid by the Government. . . . What rights would the dentist be asked to surrender or what compromises would he be asked to make in return for the guaranteed income, which could be but small? . . . The members of our profession need to make no compromise with their conscience in order to gain a livelihood. .. . We need not sell out to political powers...