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Word: gainful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Equal Opportunity | 11/19/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Uppie's Goddess | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Atoms for NATO | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Faubus Demands Negroes Leave Racially Integrated Central High; ICBM Called 'Decisive' for War | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Quick Start Spurs Brown to 33-6 Win Over Injury-Ridden Varsity | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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