Word: profit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first few weeks, and then two a night as the candidates become weeded out. Criticism of a purely destructive nature, and incidentally in case you hadn't realized it, this is the most stimulating and valuable type there is, is given by the editors, and we hope you profit...
...long did the young lawyer press his case for simple profit. After banging his head for a few years against a stone wall of Congressional indifference, Hiram Mann got mad. He began going out on Manhattan street corners to harangue passersby about the Government's injustice. He published pamphlets, pestered editors and public officials with letters, telegrams, petitions. Finally he began to advertise. At first he took imposing space, but as his funds ran low he was reduced to two or three lines in Public Notices...
...also disregard those who are actuated by a spirit of political partisanship or by a willingness to gain or retain personal profit at the expense of, and detriment to, their neighbors...
...softball became a craze, nobody knows. Promoters have at least been shrewd enough to profit from it. George Sisler, longtime first baseman for the St. Louis Browns, who now has a St. Louis sporting goods store, is head of the American Association, owns two softball parks in St. Louis, controls three others. Ordinary softball parks seat 4,000, cost $3,500 to build and, with 10? admissions attracting crowds from 1,000 to capacity, may pay for themselves in a month. Principal rival to the American Association is the National Association, run by a onetime baseballer and sportswriter named Philip...
...which Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman committed assault & battery on the emotions of the U. S. public in 1925. It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor and profit which includes such classics as the life-preserver sequence in Cavalcade, the dance of the coffee rolls in The Gold Rush, the heroine's suicide in Anna Karenina...