Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fruits of Retreat. Finally, in any assessment of what the Israelis win or lose by giving in, their most significant gain may be the degree to which President Eisenhower has now committed the U.S. in the Middle East. Lacking a steadfast and mature Middle East policy, the U.S. in the past tended to follow the British lead there long after it ceased to in other parts of the world. All that ended in the wreckage of Suez, and the U.S. has moved to fill the Middle East "power deficit" (the State Department avoids the word "vacuum" as offensive to Arab...
Number two man on the Crimson varsity, Cal Place, also advanced into the third round. He won his first round match handily from Fox of Cornell and took his second encounter to gain a spot in the third round...
...Note protective effect of Woolston's elbow and forearm as they tend to discourage Francis' defensive play. Captain RON JUDSON closes in from left and DAVE CARRUTHERS is behind Woolston. Height like that of Francis' (he stands six feet, eight inches in his stocking feet) enabled the visitors to gain a 45-35 rebound margin in the Blockhouse last night, but they still lost, 69 to 60. The defeat dropped their league record to 9 and 4, and gave Yale the title with an 11 and 2 mark. Each team has one game to play. Meanwhile, the Crimson maintained...
...second, Maurice, a young boy who is, apparently, a born criminal; and the third, Lefranc, a man who has only skirted the edges of the criminal world. Green Eyes dominates the triangle by virtue of the power which his crime confers on him. Each of the others tries to gain something of that power for himself by excluding the other from the murderer's regard...
...sextet's inevitable 4-2 victory over the Bulldogs assured the Crimson of at least a time in its attempt to gain a fourth straight Ivy League title and extended its current win streak to ten games...