Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even during his early youth "Win" Robinson was something of a puzzle to the citizens of his home town, Gardiner, Me. In his family he suffered from his status as the youngest-and unwanted-child, unable to gain the love of his inaccessible sexagenarian father. In the town his only kindred spirit was an eccentric doctor, more interested in composing vil-lanelles than in dosing colds. Among the boys & girls of his own age he was ill at ease, his mind roaming in regions they neither could nor wished to enter...
Additional men may gain a place on the slate if they present petitions bearing the signatures of 20 members of the class at Lowell G-32 before 6 o'clock Thursday, Goldberg added...
There is no doubt that through UMT the country can gain an increased military reserve. But it will be a reserve only in that it has learned to live in a barracks, to overcome homesickness, to fire an M1 rifle. The talents that could be acquired in six months would be useful but hardly indispensible. In the overall picture of advanced technology and production potential the value of such meagre training is negligible...
General Wei would try to make the mop-up as costly to the Reds as possible, try to gain time for his side to strengthen North China. But Mukden's defenders were short of food, fuel and ammunition. Planes of General Claire Chennault's commercial airline shuttled in & out, evacuating nonessential government workers, carrying sacks of flour on the trip in. Then the flour ran out. The flour planes found a substitute. To Mukden's cold and hungry soldiers last week came planeloads of almost worthless bank notes...
Paul N. Swaffield, advertising manager of Hood Rubber Company, emphasized the close relationship between selling and advertising, urging would-be hucksters to gain a wealth of experience before launching their advertising careers...