Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another chance when the ground dries in about two months. But the longer the Russians are delayed the more meaningless any eventual victory in the Donets-Dnieper salient would become. As in Tunisia, the Germans in south Russia-whether they eventually lose the campaign or not-have everything to gain by upsetting the Red Army's timetable. They would be better able to consolidate new positions, train much-needed reserves, replace some of their lost materiel. The next few weeks may well determine the outcome of the Russian...
...penalty is still two tricks, but hereafter there is no additional penalty when the same player revokes a second time in the same suit-and should the revoke cost the nonoffending side more than two tricks, an equitable adjustment must be made so that the revoking side cannot gain by its revoke...
...most obese persons." Dr. Cutting suggested that overeating may be caused by "some psychologic drive which requires satiation by eating"; or maybe in some cases the trait is inherited-there is a strain of laboratory mice that habitually gorges, grows pudgy. But Dr. Cutting insisted that those who gain weight on little food simply have more efficient metabolism than big eaters who stay thin. He was sure that fat comes from too much food, that the best way to fight fat is to fight appetite...
...pages listing dues and initiation receipts for every one of U.S.A.'s 1,800 locals (an almost exact mirror of new membership as well as of membership in good standing). Biggest dues contribution was $52,900 from local 1014 (Carnegie-Illinois) in the Calumet district; biggest initiation fee gain, $15,000 from local 2194 (Crucible Steel) in the New York City district...
There is, furthermore, no justification for believing that the three-term calendar will cease with the termination of the war. A student has every advantage to gain from its continuance, since, if he is allowed to choose his program, he may select a normal four year course or an acceleration, the symmetrical three term year represents a working answer to the problem of a completely flexible post-war educational system...