Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel General Heinz Guderian had willed Budapest's doom for a reason that was obvious: he wanted to gain time for the defense of Austria. Out of Vienna moved a horde of old and young to dig trenches along the old Austro-Czechoslovak border. The Germans were reportedly moving what they could of Vienna's big war plants...
...dance which are the high points of the evening. Sono Obato performs with such grace and precision; what she lacks as an actress is amply compensated for by poins and artistic elegance. "Miss Turnstiles," an imaginative ballet, pokes fun at the ephemeral grandeur of the young women who gain "Miss Something" titles...
Seemingly unable to gain a favorable decision, the Harvard Debate Council lost its fourth straight debate last Friday afternoon in the Lowell House Junior Common Room. Edwin J. Jacob '47 and Thomson McGowan of the V-12 were defeated by an all-feminine team from Clark University in Worcester...
...little yellow bastards," it demanded scapegoats at once. The Roberts Commission supplied them. Now, three years later, in a soberer mood, thoughtful citizens looked beyond those scapegoats. Pearl Harbor was no isolated event: it was the culmination of a foreign policy which had resulted in war. The U.S., to gain time for an inevitable war with Japan-inevitable unless Japan was to be allowed to conquer Asia-had appeased Japan by selling her oil and scrap iron, and then had begun to squeeze Japan by gradually cutting off these supplies...
...Board finds that this short-term loss will prove a long-term gain. Many a nation badly in need of U.S. goods will have the cash to buy them when they are again available, or at least have far better credit on which to borrow...