Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old Olympic Gold Medalist from Englewood, New Jersey, gave a spectacular performance of skating grace and skill in the freestyle events to gain the crown without serious opposition...
...discussed for many years. One lesson was presently and dreadfully clear. Once the Communists had established their rule, no man, however strong, could be sure of maintaining his integrity. Mindszenty, looking forward to martyrdom, had quoted St. Paul: "For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain...
...Post Home News's circulation (350,000) was bigger than when she took over, and the newspaper (then losing $100,000 a year) was now reportedly breaking even. Friends suspected that there were other reasons: that Dorothy Thackrey somehow felt that the Post Home News had failed to gain real national influence; that she was tired and bored with the workaday job of editing. Whatever the reason, Post readers would probably be spared any more husband & wife arguments in print...
Author Elias, like most of Dreiser's critics, makes much of his determination to gain wealth in order to achieve a respectable life. But this record makes it clear that by respectability Dreiser meant simply a freedom from cruel underworld jokes, or the appalling misrepresentation of his simplest actions. When he wrote of poverty he was not writing of ordinary working-class life, but of something highly specialized existing within it, with its own codes and manners, disciplines, hardships and horrors...
...deferment policy must still gain the approval of Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service director, and of the White House. It provides two deferment criteria...