Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Across the South-in Atlanta, Mobile, Birmingham, Tallahassee, Miami, New Orleans-Negro leaders look toward Montgomery, Ala., the cradle of the Confederacy, for advice and counsel on how to gain the desegregation that the U.S. Supreme Court has guaranteed them. The man whose word they seek is not a judge, or a lawyer, or a political strategist or a flaming orator. He is a scholarly, 28-year-old Negro Baptist minister, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who in little more than a year has risen from nowhere to become one of the nation's remarkable leaders...
Died. Willard Saxby Townsend, 61, onetime Chicago redcap who began organizing railroad porters in 1934, fought to gain employee status for redcaps (until 1938 most were paid entirely in tips), formed the International Brotherhood of Red Caps in 1937, brought his union (renamed the United Transport Service Employees) into the C.I.O. in 1942, later (1955) became one of two Negro vice presidents of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.; of a kidney ailment; in Chicago...
...other newcomer to the community, Mihaly, had had no trouble with authorities before the revolt broke. He had been a member of the Law faculty of the University of Budapest, holding a position approximately equivalent to an assistant professor of International Law. He hopes to gain a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship so that he can attend the Law School in the fall...
...time, that he can't possibly be thinking of anything else. "I tell them it isn't so," he says. "But of course, it is." If he decides to stop, he will probably be swayed less by the risk of loss or the dwindling prospect of gain than by the time he needs to write his Ph.D. dissertation and attend to his calling...
...these is the amplification of radio messages. If an ordinary amplifier is set for too great a gain, all it does is magnify the random noise caused by the thermal motions of atoms and electrons. At the extremely low temperature of liquid helium, thermal motions almost stop, so Dr. Strandberg figured that an amplifier that would work at such temperature might be efficient beyond dreams...