Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy, got married, and didn't fool much with football until two years ago. Now he is firing his left-handed passes as accurately as the great right-handed Sammy. So far this season, Albert has completed 108 passes in 180 attempts, an average of .600. Average gain: 12.98 yards. Only five of his passes have been intercepted...
...last week the lines cleared and it began a steady climb. In the busiest session since mid-July, 1,800,000 shares were traded, with such blue chips as U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Standard Oil (N.J.) leading the parade. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 3.32 points, biggest gain since the bullish days of last July. At week's end, the Dow-Jones average was 190.19, up 9.78 points in twelve days and not far from the year's high...
Thus, the point we're driving at. Neither of the two teams can conceivably equal their prototypes. But either of the two teams can get closer to a carbon copy of the original. Therefore, somebody is going to lose, and somebody is going to gain tomorrow...
Dunster used, its "T" formation through the center of the line during the second half and made one sustained short gain drive into Commuter territory, and Eliot against Leveret...
Although Truman's party now rates as a slight favorite to win control of the Senate, it will be no easy trick. If the net Democratic gain is three seats--tying the parties at 48 each--the vice-president's vote will decide which party takes charge of committees and gobbles up the rest of the majority plums. Assuming that Earl Warren will be that vice-president, the Democrats must net four new seats. The battle for the Senate may well have a higher Hooper rating next Tuesday than the Presidential race, and it will probably be much pleasanter listening...