Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a thousand officers and guests are expected to be there for the gain occasion, featuring Ken Reeves 12-piece dance orchestra and the faculty's Slide Rule Symphony...
During the war a good library with attentive assistants has meant much to the University. When the training of fighting men depends on the knowledge which they can gain from books, all possible expediency should be exercised in getting the agents of knowledge to the men promptly. In addition to the service men, the library must cater to a student body which is intensifying its courses in order to get in as much learning as possible before induction into the armed forces. The library and the librarians have tried to live up to these needs, explained Metcalf
...symbols of their millenary and everlasting glory ... the Catholic faith and the monarchy of Savoy." He tried to rouse them with a prediction-which was an admission of impending defeat in Sicily: "On the sacred soil of our adored fatherland," cried he, "we shall find more favorable conditions to gain victory. . . . Italians! It is today or never more...
...Torpedo 8 were romantically vengeful: they were "astonishingly practical, very realistic and hardheaded." When asked to volunteer for near-suicide missions, they and their fellow airmen would withdraw to ponder upon the matter. They volunteered "only when, independently of their officers, they decide [d] the possible gain [was] worth the probable loss." They knew that launching torpedoes from the bellies of their fat little craft meant "going in fast and low and drawing their planes across the mouths of the enemy guns, as if their planes were handkerchiefs wiping off those foaming, frantically chattering mouths." But since they had "been...
...instance, no matter how old he is, a 5-ft.-9-in. man of small frame may safely weigh from 140 to 151 lb.; medium-frame weight is 149 to 160, large-frame weight is 157 to 170. The old-fashioned tables show a gain of 12 lb. between the ages of 25 and 50. The actuaries say that such gaining is unhealthy...