Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a man walking on the ceiling, the stock market last week continued to delight and mystify onlookers. In nose-thumbing defiance of all the gloom over strikes (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), the market blithely kept on rising, for the fourth week in a row. With a 4.1 point gain during the week, the Dow-Jones industrial average broke through the high mark (190.19) of a year ago, when Wall Street confidently expected a Republican victory, and reached...
Meanwhile, to gain a better understanding of the College food problem in general, the entire Council will talk with vice-President Theodore Reynolds at lunch next week. They hope to ascertain what has been done since student investigations of the food situation began last Spring...
This versatile tailback is also the Tiger passing attack. Specializing in 20 yard flings, Kazmaier completed nine out of 12 for a gain of 103 yards...
...excitement it raised among French politicians, the crisis was not a particularly acute one. The only danger lay in the possibility that a failure of the center parties to reunite would make national elections necessary, and that the extremist partics, the Communists and de Gaulle's RPF might then gain more scats. The collapse of Cabinets is a commonplace in French polities--in fact the Queuillo regime, which lasted a little over a year, was considered an oddity of longevity. Lack of Cabinet leadership delays only the top-level decisions, for the ordinary administrative bureaucracy goes on functioning as usual...
Since Australia was a place where no questions were asked, Cotten soon became a financial success, but failed to gain social recognition because of his rough manners. This combination of circumstances caused Ingrid Bergman to be very despondent and constantly drunk, until the "other man" played by Michael Wilding, came along. After helping her back to sanity, making a pass, and surviving an accidental bullet in his belly, Wilding went back to England, leaving the couple to relative happiness as they walked into the sunset...