Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, passed half a dozen tawdry sake shops and headed for a three-story building with an imposing marble entrance lettered in gold: "Jujin Hospital." Smaller but more significant was the legend: "Home of the Japanese Society of Cosmetic Medicine." By going to Jujin, patients can not only gain face but new faces...
RETAIL SALES for 1957 will run up a 3% to 5% gain over 1956 for a record year, says National Retail Dry Goods Association...
...some investors the big sell off of the early week was just the chance they had been waiting for. As the fainthearted beat down prices, they moved in for the rebound. Some confidence was also gained by President Eisenhower's decision to make a series of speeches on U.S. strength and by hints of a possible easing in the Fed's restrictive policies. Up shot the market at midweek in the sharpest single day's point gain since 1929, recouping the losses of the two previous days...
Bevan predicted that a Labour government in Britain would cooperate effectively with the United States "on any major diplomatic venture" He said that he would actively work to gain U.S. recognition of Red China and analyzed American public opinion as "sympathetic" to such a move now. He said that recent events in Formosa had proved that Chiang was not a strong ally...
...about Harvard. It is a ridiculous defense mechanism to believe that the only people worth a Harvard education are those who are actively seeking it. The fact that a high school student has never thought of applying to Harvard is no reason to believe that Harvard has nothing to gain by seeking him out and admitting...