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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Houses, the Union, and Dudley opened the race for the 1949 -1950 Student Council by picking candidates at last night's nomination meetings. Of the Houses, only Eliot failed to gain a quorum, and will try again on Wednesday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Houses, Dudley, '52 Choose Candidates for New Council | 4/15/1949 | See Source »

Exhausted by the brilliant play of the Royal Navy team the previous day and by manifold strength-sapping social obligations, the Rugby Club was unable to summon enough power on Palm Sunday morning to gain the needed win over an admittedly weaker Tiger squad...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Ruggers Return With 1-3-1 Record | 4/12/1949 | See Source »

...needed. On th first day after the reduction in margin requirements from 75% to 50% (TIME, Apri 4), trading on the New York Stock Ex change hit 1,800,000 shares and the Dow Jones industrial averages jumped 2.4 points. It was the biggest volume since November, best gain since October...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WALL STREET: Two-Day Wonder | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...success of Senate 5 would be a big defeat for Massachusetts people in the struggle to gain and preserve institutions for good city government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Measure for Measure | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

...result of the finding, botanists are able to construct a picture of over 4,000 years of corn evolution, from the earliest type to the present day garden variety. This revelation permits scientists to gain valuable information about the proper breeding of corn, now an important object of botanical research...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scientists Find 4000-Year-Old Corn | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

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