Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficult to live inside the same house together, let alone inside the same skin. . . . Henry Wallace No. 1 is a mystic, an amateur of esoteric doctrines. . . . Henry Wallace No. 2 is an opportunist, adapting himself to the pressures of the moment, ready to forswear his deepest convictions for immediate gain. . . . Wallace can only alternately express the two sides of his nature, thinking one moment like a Tibetan seer and the next like a cost accountant, acting one moment like St. Francis of Assisi and the next like Boss Hague...
...Gain Rich Background...
...equal relationship. Undergraduate employees, like civilians, receive 40 cents credit for each meal eaten on duty. The saving would add up to about $2 per week, when reduced wages are deducted. Although the amount will vary considerably on the number of hours a man works, it would represent a gain in every case...
...Coleman and Captain Jim Field set the pace for the victors with 11 and 13 points respectively. Hauptfuhrer's 13-point total was sufficient to gain him individual scoring honors for the evening...
...inevitable result of a student body of 5200 is a shortage of required texts in the multitude of University libraries. Though such paucity does not necessarily mean that some volumes cannot be obtained, it requires a man to set aside one or two hours for library haunting to gain a source book. The seven House libraries were originally designed to carry a stock of required books for most courses, and thus to eliminate long nocturnal walks to Widener, Boylston, and the Union. In this capacity the House libraries are actually a dismal failure...