Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Frondizi began ticking off his answers to the nation's pressing problems. The address, his first clear statement of position since the Feb. 23 election, added up to a moderate, vigorous program-a heartening swing away from the nationalist, leftist line that he used to gain key votes from the supporters of ousted Dictator Juan...
...disintegrated." This week Romney pushed production up another 6% to put it 26% ahead of 1957. American's first-quarter sales were the greatest in its history (31,260 cars), and, after years of red ink, it reported a handsome $2,380,895 profit. Yet Romney's gain puts little cake in Detroit's lunch basket. Some 84% of the industry's 807,000 workers are Big Three employees, and an estimated 450,000 are laid off; millions more workers in thousands of supplier plants spread across the entire U.S. economy are dependent upon the major...
...solved in a way that will give the human passenger a fair chance to survive. Many new instruments and gadgets must be developed. "Granted that we have done all these things," said Pickering, "it seems to me that we should now ask the question: 'What do we gain by placing a man in the vehicle?' " Pickering's answer: a satellite-borne human would be hardly more than a hitchhiker. A much smaller payload of instruments could make far better observations, transmitting the information by radio or sending pictures back to earth in some sort of armored capsule...
...this halfway point, the reader begins to see clearly what Swiss Novelist Frisch is up to, i.e., a sort of Franz Kafka's Castle in reverse. In the Kafka fable, the modern hero struggled to gain entry into an official world that denied his existence; in I'm Not Stiller, he struggles to deny the existence that the same world imposes on him. And, as in The Castle, the setting and characters in I'm Not Stiller may be understood symbolically as well as really. Sam's "prison" is his own fear. The "border" at which...
...attempt to gain a charter from the Republican State Committee, the Harvard Eisenhower Club has begun an all-out drive to recruit freshman members with a special plan for installment memberships. One of the two Executive Committee members canvassing the dorms speculated yesterday that "theoretically, at our present rate, we could get 200 members...