Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ottawa's gain was Toronto's gall. Officials of Toronto's Royal Ontario Museum cried loudly that they had asked for the gown, hence should exhibit it. For five and a half years the two cities wrangled over the dress...
Almost alone among undergraduate activities, the Crimson Network held firm from '43 on, and even improved its position in a measure. Government aid in securing priorities for buying equipment was obtained, and the movement from Shepard Hall to Dudley a year age actually resulted in a gain, since its present location is, according, to one Networker, much better for their purposes. Letting the men of the Busy School and the Yard in on Network programs is their number one postwar project, along with an increased coverage of sports contests and a membership drive, to be opened by a four week...
...order to ... place control of atomic energy in the hands of the Army & Navy. If there is any group in the U.S. more incompetent and incapable of running the affairs of the nation than the Army, I have never heard of it. GOD help us if they ever gain control...
...proposal that the U.S. give away its present security as sole possessor of the bomb, the objection was that the only gain would be the world's transitory gratitude...
...women that wait for the men. . . . Their yearning for men is like the yearning for rain during a drought. . . . In universities, the girls are like refugees who see meat and fish before them; girl students in enticing, flowery clothes gather around ragged boy students . . . competing with each other to gain [their] favors. . . . In the streets, no more is it men who stare at women, but instead women who steal glances...