Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year and a half he worked--in the summer on construction jobs, in the winter in a furniture factory--all with two aims in mind, to gain enough weight to play college ball, and to earn enough money to pay his way through. In the fall of 1937, McCabe enrolled in Iowa State Teachers College. He weighed 160 pounds...
...small but energetic World War II veteran of Bloomington, Ind. He rallied coal miners and other labor support against five-termer Gerald Landis, who voted for the Taft-Hartley law and who was in line, if elected, to become chairman of the Labor Committee. The Democratic gain in Indiana: five seats...
Right half CHUCK NELSON has run to one touchdown and practiced his specialty--pass catching--to the tune of five more. He stands second among Bruin scorers, trailing only brother back Roger Young. Nelson has an average gain of 31 yards for each of his catches...
Trailing Gannon is tailback Jimmy Noonan, who has connected on 15 passes out of 39 for 145 yards, in addition to rushing 49 times from scrimmage for a not gain of 146 yards...
...description in the better moments of the better stories. The result is readability, a fairly important aspect of fiction that has been almost totally absent from Harvard's and Radcliffe's literary magazines in the recent past. But even the very best of these stories crics out time and gain for cutting, for clarification, for a different word here, for an additional sentence there. And that is to say that although Signature is at last getting work by authors who have something worth writing, the magazine is not yet supplying editorial assistance to those authors to make the finished product...