Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...historian will be able to pass final judgment on the events now transpiring in Europe. But is all too clear that however fine the fact that the League is at last acting according to its Covenant, the Italian people are going to lose far more than they can possibly gain from their leader's private war. To just what extent a people may be held responsible for the acts of their statesmen is a nice philosophical point. All we in America can do is to avoid condemning the Italians themselves. For without tolerance, no real settlement of the Ethiopian...
...magazines. In 1921 he adopted his mother's family name, Le Corbusier, but still signs Jeanneret to the Léger-like abstractions he paints in his spare time and which he has never tried to sell. Not until after the Arts Decoratifs Exposition of 1925 did he gain an international reputation as a builder. By that time many a young architect was working on the problem of stripping the petticoat from architecture and making honest use of modern materials in building. But it remained for Le Corbusier to supply the crackling phrases which often did more to promote...
After three scoreless periods, a forward pass for a 70-yd. gain redeemed Carnegie Tech's record, spoiled Purdue's in the week's biggest upset...
Radical changes in the Varsity lineup were being predicted yesterday after Dick Harlow had scrimmaged his "A" against his "B" team for the third successive time this week and had found to his consternation that the secondstringers could gain consistently against their supposed superiors...
Eliot's first touchdown came early in the game after a sustained march of fifty yards up the field. In only a couple of plays were the Eliot men held without gain and William W. Waters '37 drew first blood on a run around right...