Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Glee and Music Clubs, are tied up intimately with the department and receive the wholehearted support of faculty members. Activity in these organizations can compensate in part for the total lack of "practical music" courses, but except in the case of the Glee Club, only the real virtuoso can gain much benefit from these activities...
Harry Turner will face the Vermonters this afternoon. His slow curve held BC to two earned runs last Saturday, and with adequate support at the plate he could gain his first victory. Mort Dunn and Harry Cavanaugh have been meeting the ball solidly, against enemy pitching at that, and with a few breaks they should start connecting for hits...
...Laski and on "Harvard Reds" aren't even quarter-truths; they are mere offhand slander, liberally applied with a brush which has been carefully constructed by Thomas, Mundt, and Co. Unless people start thinking about the manufacturers before swinging such paintbrushes, what now looks like ridiculous name calling may gain the stature of truth in the public mind. And that would put us right back on the end of that springboard, teetering...
Dominion of Satan. Much of psychiatry, Sheen argues, only gives man a false sense that all is well with him, when in reality things could not be worse. The psychiatrist's patient may indeed gain peace of mind, but the Christian gets something far better-peace of soul. "There is a world of difference between [them]. Peace of mind is the result of bringing some ordering principle to bear on discordant human experiences; this may be achieved by tolerance, or by a gritting of one's teeth in the face of pain; by killing conscience, or denying guilt...
...Four big carpetmakers (Bigelow-Sanford, Alexander Smith, Mohawk and James Lees & Sons) cut prices from 10% to 20%. Thanks to such measures and a burst of fair weather and Easter buying, department store sales for the week ending April 2 were 8% above last year's. But the gain was too small to cause much cheering. The Federal Reserve Board gloomily observed that sales for the year would probably be down...