Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newly-formed Harvard-Radcliffe committee to study full membership for Annex students in University organizations sent questionnaires yesterday to all student groups in an effort to gain statistical information and opinions...
...work has never come closer than Provincetown despite some three hundred exhibitions both in this country and abroad. Displayed here, to the delightful if somewhat dubious accompaniment of a console offering Rossini's Barber of Seville at one moment and Brahms' Hungarian Rhapsodies the next, these unpretentious canvases gain much from understatement...
This represented a gain of 105 from last Friday, when 1415 were present. On Thursday there were 1350 students in the school, and on Wednesday, the first day of federal intervention, only 1250 students attended school...
...smokers puffed 240.5 billion cigarettes, 5.6% more than the same period last year. July sales in U.S. alone jumped 13.5% over 1956. For third quarter, R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston) says earnings will be "considerably ahead" of last year, Philip Morris expects a 5% to 10% sales gain, P. Lorillard (Old Gold, Kent) also anticipates a rise...
...Indian voice raised against efforts to destroy free enterprise. His reports to stockholders warn Indians against being fooled about state control of economic life. Only a handful of men. says he, can be motivated by pure service. The rest must be driven by fear or actuated by hope of gain, as in the United States, which he publicly defends as the ideal of a welfare state that has not sacrificed efficiency or freedom. But Tata is impatient of Americans, feels they do not understand his country's "mixed economy," says: "I wish that sometimes in America points of view...