Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boom investment and production is not strong enough overwhelmingly to counter-act these inevitable rigidities, then Labor Unions will conquer in their unconscious attempts to make unemployment as large as possible, and Capitalists will gain a splendid victory in contracting production as much as is monopolistically profitable and possible...
...take up at once, as our supreme task, the endeavor to end poverty in the midst of plenty; starvation and unnecessary suffering in a land of abundance; discontent and distress in a country more blessed by Providence than any other on the face of the globe, and to gain for individual lives, and for the nation as a whole, that 'health and peace and sweet content' which is the rightful heritage...
...half courses covering the history of science require considerable technical knowledge to be enjoyed; and cannot attract the student whose primary concern is to gain an insight into the scientific method. Such a course necessitates a lecturer whose approach would be virtually that of the layman, and who would realize that his sole purpose would be to stimulate interest in a field that has unfortunately come to be associated too much with pure technique...
...only of adults but of boys and babies captured during raids, and commerce in eunuchs, which is still flourishing," Baron Aloisi, Italian representative at Geneva, condemns (TIME, Sept. 16) the Ethiopians as a barbarous and uncivilized race-what about the vaunted civilization of the Italians, who, for profit and gain during the centuries before the accession of Leo XIII to the Papal Chair, in 1878, castrated 3,500 Italian boys annually? Many died from the horrible operation; but the castrati, who survived and whose voices acquired the proper and desired timbre, were trained to be sold as sopranos, not only...
...troops she withdrew and sent to guard her German frontier after the Laval-Mussolini accord in Rome (TIME, Jan. 14). Simultaneously Italy, which has been the chief bulwark against absorption of Austria by Germany would agree to that Anschluss, and Adolf Hitler might then make his first territorial gain not in some remote colonial sphere but in Europe...