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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Justice has triumphed! Two traitors have been punished partially: De Sapio for the Democrats and Knowland for the Republicans. When people forsake their parties for personal gain, they should be thrown out of the party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...last proved a stumbling block to their policy of surrender in North Africa. I feel it is a pity that an American magazine should think it fit to feed its readers that sort of unwholesome stuff. What, may I ask, would America and indeed the whole free world gain if Algeria fell into the hands of anti-Western fanatics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

...exhume some bodies. Nine of them (eight men and a woman) were found to have been partly dismembered, apparently to make ritual meals for cannibals. Ten suspects were rounded up and they readily admitted murdering 34 victims, explained that they ate the hand muscles of their victims to gain the skillfulness of the murdered one, the heart and liver to acquire his courage, the sexual organs to gain his power. Like the famed Aniotas or leopard men, Belgian officials say, the murderers often wore hooded, waist-long cloaks of crocodile skin that left their arms free to seize and strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: Beware of the Crocodiles! | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

CONSTRUCTION BOOM will lift building outlays 7% to an all-time record $52.3 billion next year, say Commerce and Labor departments. Increases in highways (to $6 billion) and housing (to 1,200,000 units) will account for 80% of the gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Chet Boulris and Larry Repsher, as well as Ravenel, could gain almost at will on these plays, as the Crimson attacked from a new formation featuring two backfield flankers on the same side. Fullback Sam Halaby was able to cut down the opposing end nearly every time, and other Harvards delivered crunching blocks downfield, so the ball-carrier's job was made that much easier...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Crimson Downs Inept Bulldog Squad For First Time in Four Years, 28-0 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

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