Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...line with the new Council policy of "informing the voters," leaflets and brochures explaining in detail the activities of the Council and the specific purposes for which the fund will be used have already been distributed to gain favorable student opinion before the drive opens...
H.Va. First Downs 10 16 Gain by Rushing 63 250 F.P. Attempted 22 17 F.P. Completed 9 8 Gain by F.P. 121 117 F.P. Intercepted by 0 2 Gain by Interceptions 0 20 Average Punts 43 41 Opponent Fumbles Recovered 0 0 Yards Penalized...
Almost all Kansas farmers had made plenty. Estimates of 1947's value of crops and livestock topped $1.5 billion, up $400 million from last year's record farm prosperity. That gain alone exceeded the total farm wealth produced in the state in many a thin year. Wheat was the bonanza; 1947's phenomenal crop and 1947's soaring prices added up to more than $660 million for Kansas wheat alone...
There are opportunities for other teams which may have hopes of winning olive wreaths and oak trees but unfortunately not too bright ones. America's major sports--football, baseball and basketball--gain rather minor positions in Olympics. Football, as the U. S. plays it, is popular in no other nation and although there has been talk of sending an exhibition team, it is unlikely. An exhibition baseball team usually travels to the Olympic games and in 1948 there may be some other nations to play it. If there are and the executive committee decides to send one, the players would...
Were Russia an ardent supporter of the Marshall Plan, desirous of guaranteeing its activation, the Kremlin could scarcely have made a move better calculated to gain its goal than the recently consummated revival of the Communist International. For Senators and Representatives, who might not see their way clear to vote billions for purely humanitarian purposes, may be swayed by allusions to the "Red menace." But the "official party line." far from supporting the Marshal Plan, has damned it as a vile Capitalist plot...