Word: gainly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cure," Dr. Lehv cautioned. The Harlem Hospital group has used the new drug only three months, found that some types of cancer seemed to respond better than others. But researchers who know about Teropterin's performance thus far think that the drug promises at least one great gain in the anti-cancer war: it seems likely to relieve the pain and suffering of cancer's late stages, without the depressing effects of narcotics...
WCOP, "1150 on your radio dial," arrived in Harvard Square yesterday armed with a station-wagon, two stooges, a mike, and a wire recorder. They had come speaking the answer to this cryptic query: "If the Communists should gain control of France and Italy, do you think the United States should go on with its aid to these countries...
...Farmer Campbell turn back one page of TIME and read the more modern thought of Eisenhower: "Our competitive system is an essential feature of democracy, but the practice of competition gives no man, no group, the right to act for selfish and immediate gain against the interests of the nation. . . . Banker and borrower . . . politician and farmer . . . must each keep his eye upon the major good...
Nevertheless, some businessmen worried over the long-range dangers of the program. In making loans to businesses through the Fondo Industrie Mecaniche, there was grave danger that the government might gain control of so many companies that Free-Trader Einaudi would find he had no course but to set up a state-controlled economy. In this same fashion, Mussolini's state-run holding company (Istituto di Ricostruzione Industriale) had gained control of an enormous part of the economy...
Other ages have had their individual traitors-men who from faintheartedness or hope of gain sold out their causes. But in the 20th Century, for the first time, men banded together by millions, in movements like fascism and communism, dedicated to the purpose of betraying the institutions they lived under. In the 20th Century, treason became a vocation whose modern form was specifically the treason of ideas...