Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came Saturday, literally or otherwise, to three phases of College baseball. 'The Freshman and Jayvee niues played their traditional matches with Yale and closed shop for the season. But for the Varsity, if they are once more to gain first place in the Ivy League, their work is just the beginning, after a couple of pitchers, a few bad breaks, and two runs that never materialized dumped them unceremoniously from the undefeated ranks in Eastern Intercollegiate baseball, and from first to fourth place in the League...
...there were some Republicans who saw no good in a needlessly punitive bill and no political gain in unnecessarily antagonizing labor. This group was not only composed of such G.O.P. mavericks as Oregon's Morse, Vermont's Aiken and New Hampshire's Tobey. It included such men as New York's Irving Ives, a labor relations expert and skilled parliamentary debater; Massachusetts' Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.; New Jersey's H. Alexander Smith; and the co-leader of the Senate, Arthur Vandenberg. They took a second look at the bill now under consideration...
...psychotic never murders for personal gain. He has his motives, but they make little sense to anyone but himself. They also fail to meet De Quincey's standards (". . . Something more goes into the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed.") Cohen & Coffin tell of a boy who hit his employer over the head several times with a hammer, stabbed him repeatedly with a hunting knife, and explained: "I just felt like doing...
Biggest numerical gain between 1926 and 1941-42 was scored by the largest single sect,* the Roman Catholics, with 4.3 million. But by percentages, Roman Catholicism is doing no better than the general trend: during the same period, "the 43 larger Protestant denominations showed a combined rate of growth of nearly 24%-almost identical with the percentage gain of the Roman Catholic Church...
Stalin charges Britain and the United States with breaking a solomn promise to open a western front on Europe in 1942, and with wanting to reach the Balkans ahead of the Russians in order to gain political advantage...