Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most recent addition to the University's pecuniary crew, which includes the Treasurer and administrative vice-President, is a special adviser to the President. As the special adviser, Richmond Keith Kane '22 sees his job as the discovery of "who is hitting whom for what." In order to gain this knowledge, he must sit midway between the departments, which initiate projects requiring more money, the Corporation, which authorizes most solicitations, and whatever persons or organizations are interested in giving money where it is wanted...
...only authorized spokesman of the Screen Writers' Guild," he added that the Communist influence in the Guild has been greatly overrated. Since he has been head, he declared, Communists had never been able to gain control...
...Internal Jewish strife and Arab-Jewish warfare will massare millions of civilians, and Russia will gain the opportunity to spread Communism in the Near East," Kheiry added...
...aura of hostility greets Frieda when she arrives in Denfield before the war has even ended. Miss Robson as Aunt Nora, a "cold, logical woman," realizes that her chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...
What, then, did Moscow hope to gain? In a word-time. Time in which to wreck the Marshall Plan on the shoals of disorder in Europe, on the rocks of the great U.S. depression which Moscow believes imminent. Moscow is by no means ready for full-fledged international war, but neither does it want peace. In the phrase of a top British diplomat, it wants a "twilight zone" between peace and war. Quite satisfactory twilights have been produced in Greece and China. It is time, in Moscow's eyes, for twilight to roll westward, along the course...