Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somoza's Gain. The only one who seemed to have gained anything out of the fizzled blitz was Nicaragua's wily "Tacho" Somoza. Last week, he had let out a howl that Nicaraguan revolutionaries in Guatemala were planning to bomb his capital. Now he himself had two four-engined bombers-a tidy air force for Central America. Somoza solemnly thundered, through his mouthpiece and stooge, uncle Roman y Reyes, that the planes would "be used only to defend the soil of Nicaragua and its legitimate government" against attacks from Guatemala...
...pound division, calculating Dan Ray rode Bob Adams, one of the Cornell stars, for over six minutes to gain a clear cut, 6 to 2, decision. Dave Coombs, the Crimson's intense flyweight, took the only other match for Harvard with a 5 to 2 decision over Earle Wilde...
Boasting record-breaking Sam Felton, who last Wednesday stretched the A.A.U. 35-pound weight throw by nine inches, Jonathan Spivak, and Don Trimble as their most promising bread-winners, Crimson athletes will enter the match with everything to gain...
...small, it is a valuable step in the right direction. Any investment is sure and safe. The books will be received and distributed in Europe by persons associated with the University. All the undergraduate can lose is a book he may never read anyway. Central Europe stands to gain at least one student who knows a book's worth about the world or the West. The price...
Today Britannia, though still as great, For freedom forfeited all her gain...