Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investment cash. Brazilians' living costs have more than trebled since 1950; Chileans' have risen twelvefold. Britain's index has shot up 43% in seven years, and France's latest 10%-20% price zoom for food and consumer goods has already wiped out any hoped-for gain from last summer's devaluation of the franc...
...quarterback, Dick McLaughlin will be counted on heavily to turn in a performance up to the standards he set against Columbia. In that contest, he appeared to come into his own both on offense and defense and to gain confidence with each play...
...proposed club integration raises several problems. With a majority of the membership, Radcliffe could possibly gain control of the nine-member executive board. But Harvard U.N. Council President Philip Chartrand '58 says he is not worried. Chartrand is counting on the greater membership potential of Harvard to even out club ranks. He hopes that the appeal of a combined club will spark the membership drive planned for next semester...
...soccer, an Eliot squad led by left wing Nick Lamont, blanked Lowell, 2 to 0, to gain first place. Lamont converted passes from John Finley and George Herrick to score all of Eliot's goals for the second time in two games...
...mind learned at Harvard, these essays are not emotion-laden "old alma mater" type plaints. They are some times nostalgic, but not for "the night we tore the Yale goalposts down" or for the good-natured camaraderie of their youth. Most represent a serious attempt to tell what they gained from Harvard, although for some, such as Dos Passos, the gain was not overly great: "It took me twenty years to discover that I did learn something at Harvard after all. Cambridge wasn't such a backwater as I'd thought...