Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first duty of the new administration is obviously to restore confidence in the banking system . . . first of all ... a national bank holiday of about a week ... Whatever solution is put into effect, the era of incompetent banking, banking that exists in so many cases for the maximum of private gain and the minimum of public good must be forcibly brought to a close." (March...
...letting in some new air, the breeze has gotten a bit out of hand, and some of the trusted precepts on the desk near the window have been roughed up, there is normally a net gain. This is usually so, because good-will toward the aspirations of mankind is the most frequent hall-make of CRIMSON writers, and besides, it is more fun trying to run a good sheet than a mediocre...
Aspiring engineers will be able to gain a Master of Engineering degree at the University for the first time this fall, Gordon M. Fair '16, Dean of the Graduate School of Engineering, announced yesterday...
Italy's Palmiro Togliatti, who epitomized the "respectable" (or blue-serge-suit) tactics which failed to gain power...
...colleges had joined as sponsors - "the largest Western college league ever organized," cracked one reviewer, "to support anything but athletics." Last week Pacific Spectator began its second year. It had not yet grown to the stature of a Yale, Kenyon or Sewanee Review, but it was at least gaining weight. The fifth quarterly issue went to 8,000 buyers, a gain of 3,000 from the first. To win them (at $3.50 a year), Spectator had turned an appraising gaze on Western writers, from Saroyan to Steinbeck. It had given two score pent-up regional intellectuals an outlet...