Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finally, tutorial should be maintained for non-Honors juniors and extended to non-Honors seniors on a voluntary basis. If competent, interested tutors were engaged to teach these non-compulsory sessions, many non-Honors concentrators might switch to Honors. In any case, they would gain greater benefit from their education than they do at the present time...
Freud to Fission. The rest of the book is a wife's-eye view of Upton Sinclair's career, written in a mincing, exclamation-pointed style that sustains the author's fond boast of having been the first student ever to gain a grade of 100 in English at the Mississippi State College for Women. Though Mary Sinclair loyally supports her husband's politics, there is a recurring refrain that goes something like: "I told Uppie not to do it, but he wouldn't listen and so he was arrested again." Sinclair fought John...
America's NATO allies will undoubtedly press their request for nuclear arms and secrets at next month's high-level conference. The Administration can gain a double advantage by granting them this request...
Aiken, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said, "I don't know what President Eisenhower expects to gain by inviting Stevenson in." "If it is intended as a demonstration of unity, it isn't going to work," Aiken noted...
...running and ball-handling of the Bruin backs enabled the winners to gain almost at will on the options; Frank Finney, in particular, proved his mettle as a quarterback with his flawless execution of this play...