Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited number of guest cards have been distributed to Dartmouth undergraduates who have invited guests from other colleges. One of these cards must be presented at the door of every fraternity and dormitory in order to gain admittance...
...film then gains its merit from sheer movement and color and makes its myth come momentarily true in the abstract as if it were an opera and not a supposed documentation of an historical event. The Turks are all red-fezzed ogres, the common soldier and the people's general win the war for their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted...
Hank Wente leaped 21 feet, eight inches to gain a third in the broad jump competition, held in the afternoon. Weightmen John DuMoulin and Jim Doty both did fifty-four feet in their event, but could not make the finals against the likes of Olympic champ Hal Connolly and several other fine performers
...University's Slavic Department may gain a new group of students interested in learning Russian specifically to teach it in high schools, Lord thought...
...weekly luncheon meeting of coaches and writers, Weiland explained that the line would help to enforce a present rule which prohibits a player from taking more than two steps to check an opponent on the boards. "If a player is allowed to take more than two steps and gain momentum before he body checks his opponent on the boards," the Coach said, "he can cause a serious injury and is guilty of 'charging...