Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happy, but fat. Preferring not to be fat, they would not care to be patients of mine, and this, as you can well understand, is serious. Nowhere in your story could I find anything to ... explain, as was proved in my original article, that despite free-feeding, the average gain and the average retained weight after pregnancy is the same as the accepted standards...
Then the Wolverines tried hitting the line and found it just as easy to gain there. By winning, 14-7, twice-beaten Michigan took some steam out of unbeaten Minnesota's big drive toward the Western Conference championship and the Rose Bowl...
With his alter-ego, Jim Noonan, available on extra load. He ran with decisiveness completed three of the five passage be attempted for a gain of 23 yards. On the play which set up the Harvard held goal, West took a lateral from Rocks on a cries-cross play and went 17 yards to the Holy Cross seven. This play, which Harvard had worked once before in the first quarter without such success suggest, seemed to typify the Harvard offense--West and Roche--mere than any other...
What stopped Curley from being a good governor was his attempt to gain power enough to form a state machine without setting up an efficient organization to do it. He tried to see everyone in the State and pass out jobs to everyone when the jobs just didn't exist; the Brahmins, looking out of their Beacon Hill bay windows were shocked by the long queues of unemployed emanating from the State House doors. That was the kind of thing that worked in City Hall, but couldn't possibly work on such a scale as the State of Massachusetts demanded...
Eastern schools show an over all decline over last year's attendance, the national average a four percent rise. This rise is largely due to the southwest which shows a 29 percent increase and the far west which boasts a 7 percent gain...