Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace. Professional patriots like the Legion cannot attack the gathering at Sanders as they handled rebellious Chicago school children, or obfuscate the appeal of men such as Prall and Darvall by throwing a cordon of tin-hatted warriors around the battlements of Memorial Hall. The quest for peace can gain real effectiveness if reason, not emotion, prevails...
They also have a fine pair of shot-putters, but in this event Rhode Island and Holy Cross will be cutting each other's throats and whatever happens Harvard will gain...
Retail sales for the first quarter of 1936 also set a record for that period. Even more significant, GM's March sales were 89% above those in February. Some of this gain was probably the result of bad weather, which made prospective buyers put off their purchase until the first hint of spring. Yet the February-March gain in 1935 was only...
...that the Freshman applications for rooms in the Houses are safely deposited in the hands of the Central Committee, it is time for the class of '39 to consider what they intend to gain and contribute to the general success of the House Plan. The cross-section as interpreted at the present time has been unsuccessful. Although it is valuable for students of all types to intermingle, the regimentation of the plan has defeated its original purposes, by forcing a large number of students out of the Houses into "rabbit-warrens" on Mt. Auburn and Plympton Streets. Restrictions placed upon...
...first time last week. Phillips' income statements clearly registered the rise of 5? soups in the past two years. Sales climbed from $5,800,000 in 1933 to more than $9,000,000 in 1935. But Colonel Phillips was not able to convert much of that gain into profits. They rose only about $123,000 above the $605,000 reported in 1933. Gross margin of profit increased, but overhead and selling expenses nearly doubled, presumably because of 5? soups...