Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This mad armament race is traceable to the fact that our governmental policies today are directed by men who have found that there is considerable financial gain for them in military preparedness. They have discovered that profits are greatest when blood is thickest. The next time we send our youths across the seas to die on foreign battlefields, let us call it a war to make the world safe for Dupontcracy...
...Veterans of Foreign Wars" and the publicity seeking "D. A. R." Mouth-filling, ear-catching, windy phrases reeking with "patriotism", "Americanism", "loyalty", "love of your country" and the rest; meaning nothing, with no single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support of the unthinking masses who see in the yellow press and who hear over...
...till now prospective teachers have had to decide whether they wished to master the theories of education or whether they wished to gain a complete knowledge of the field in which they were going to teach. This is the first time in any American university that the two methods of learning have been joined...
...Most lobbyists attempt to gain their legislative ends by political threat: "Unless you vote as we say, we will defeat you in the next election...
...interesting comparison with the 64th annual report published last fortnight by Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery. Sears showed net sales of $392,000,000, up 23% from the year before. Ward's sales of $293,000,000 were the highest in its history, yet the gain from the previous twelve-month period was only 17%. Sears reported profits of $21,500,000, a 43% increase. On this item Ward did better than Sears, showing a 47% gain from the $9,161,000 profit in fiscal 1935 to the $13,527,000 for fiscal...