Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthused America, speaking through its Government, can make American democracy an article of export. The Christian concept of the dignity of man is the strongest revolutionary force in the world. But because we lack imagination or understanding, we have allowed the materialistic and brutal verbiage of Communism to gain a greater export currency than our own belief which springs from eternal sources...
Also in "The New Student" is a slap-dash attempt to prove that American universities are in the toils of Big Business, based mostly on a quasi-review of a book which appeared two years ago. And the conclusion--that students and faculty should somehow gain control of University policies--is as breezily vague as the unqualified condemnation of America's Puerto Rican "imperialism" in the article that follows. This general tone of militant outrage, coupled with the total absence of any attempt at objectivity, makes "The New Student" more of a screeching political pamphlet than an undergraduate magazine honestly...
...matter of speculation, even though it serves to refute the Communist assertion that American aid will continue no matter who wins, Chances of a victory of the anti-Communists were somewhat bettered by the offer of the Western powers on March 20 to return Trieste to Italy. The gain lies more in the fact that the West best the Russians to the offer, than in its support for this old national claim...
...Yalies, they're on the skids, according to the New York scribe. He thinks Furse is a much better passer than Gallffa or Gustafson of Army, white Jackson and Nadherney are potentially superior to the present crop of Cadet ball carriers, but he wonders how they can gain "behind a small, weak line." Where will the Elis finish in the Ivy League? "It's quite possible that Yale will lose seven out of nine games next fall and wind up in the league celler ... why the Elis over scheduled Vanderbilt and Wisconsin is a mystery...
...have very different problems to contend with in their attempt to compete with the professional shows but gain in prestige may more than atone for added worries and possible decrease in net profits...