Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift of $500,000 "to encourage spiritual communication between men of different religious faiths" will make the construction possible. By means of a "sympathetic study of the religions of the world," each scholar in the center "may gain a clear insight and firmer faith in the truth of his own religion," according to terms of the donation...
...victory over the varsity eleven is a must for the Bulldogs to hold onto their slim chance to tie for the Ivy League title. If, by some twist of fate, the Yalies happen to gain a victory at the Bowl, they still must wait until Thanksgiving Day to cheer on Cornell against first-place Pennsylvania in the annual League finale at Philadelphia...
...Israel's first general election since 1955, Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor) Party had not only defended its No. 1 position against 20 rival parties, but boosted its strength in the 120-member Knesset from 40 to at least 47 seats, a gain the campaign manager himself had ruled out beforehand as "impossible." "The fight of the 20 against one has ended with the complete failure of the 20," crowed Ben-Gurion. His nimbus of white hair awhirl, the old (73) warrior jubilantly raised a glass of vermouth, proclaimed his victory toast: "To life...
Bidding for political power, the Lower Congo's Abako Party announced it would boycott the December vote rather than submit to the "slowness" of Brussels' timetable. Hoping to gain control of the rival Congolese National Movement, an ambitious politician named Patrice Lumumba increased the ante. Fiery Lumumba, a 33-year-old former postal clerk and convicted embezzler, cried, "Total independence NOW NOW NOW," at a Stanleyville meeting of his followers, many of them armed with spears and painted as if for battle. Police rushed in to arrest Lumumba, and his supporters fought back, touching off two days...
Productivity. The Government has long shied from making any calculations as to the productivity of labor lest it get tangled in the argument between labor and management as to whether the gain was due to harder work or more capital and machines. C.E.D., venturing in, divided the real G.N.P. by the total production force, computed a 1929-57 productivity trend line showing an average 1.6% rise. The difference between a 1.3% labor-force rise and a 1.6% productivity rise, said C.E.D., produced "well over half of the growth in production in recent decades." In 1959 output...