Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this campaign, has broadened its scope somewhat, more from a feeling of expediency than of sincerity. Some, certainly not all of its candidates were recruited, instead of coming to seek support. Last spring Shaplin told a Harvard audience that the CCA, to gain a majority on the School Committee or the Council, would have to broaden its electoral base substantially. A conscious effort to achieve this goal can be seen in the CCA's 18 endorsees. Four are blessed with Italian names, two, and possibly a third, are of Irish ancestry, four have Jewish ties, one is a Negro...
...military effort in rocket research is imperative. And, necessary for the attainment of the other objectives, a general realization of the state of American science and a discarding of former smug self-satisfaction are musts. With these revisions in our outlook and actions, the United States stands to gain perhaps more than it lost after the Sputnik launching...
Emerson D is filled these days with English concentrators and dilettantes leaning forward to memorize Perry Miller's interpretations of the White Whale; Sever Hall draws about a roomful of the less dilettantish who wish to gain Kenneth Murdock's analyses of American literature to 1825; and the Coop is stocked with books by Faulkner, Twain, Hawthorne, Cooper, and the Puritan writers...
...possibility that certain unpredicted irregularities may be explained by a difference between the actual and theoreretical mass distribution of the earth was not totally discarded by Whipple. He said that the IGY project hopes to gain information about the earth's mass distribution and that these present discrepancies might be a start towards such information. However, he added that it was still too early to tell...
Council members were also interested to know "what does someone have to gain as a director of HSA, Inc?" Burke replied, "I'm not sure a person should have anything to gain as a director," but Stone countered, "You're quite right; we do get something out of it. There's a tremendous sense of accomplishment and pride. There's no graft, we get no salary...