Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intense, sweaty summer saw Crimson teams tangle not too frequently and not too successfully with other colleges. Adolph Samborski's baseball squad, inherited from Floyd Stahl who went vacationing, played eight games, and managed to gain wins in only three of them...
...metropolises could not protect itself as well as Russia, were matters to come to an atomic showdown; 3) the U.S. has thus far shown little interest in making its democratic ways more attractive abroad to offset the appeal that Soviet Communism, with its racial equality and promise of economic gain, seems to have for masses of people throughout the world...
What did Trujillo stand to gain by playing with the Communists? Locally, the appearance of any new party aided his frenetic efforts to make dictatorship look like democracy. And internationally, he could count on some support from the Communists who control labor unions. Vicente Lombardo Toledano's C.T.A.L. (Latin American Workers' Federation) had taken in Trujillo's fake labor unions last year, was expected to give him a fresh boost of some kind any minute. Already the strong, communist-dominated Cuban Federation of Labor had promised to send delegates to Trujillo's Dominican Labor Congress...
...mother (Craig Rice) is not plump, and the fact that you described her as such (TIME, July 29) is going to do a great deal of harm to the family campaign to make her gain 15 pounds...
This would mean, for one thing, that the arts would gain greater importance than the West has ever given them. Professor Northrop holds that the sensuous and passionate art of Mexico's Orozco, the sensuous and tranquil art of Georgia O'Keeffe, are essential insights into the nature of things-as are Chinese paintings...