Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...highbrows' loss is the hoi-polloi's gain, for inside the binding is a fascinating tale, expertly handled by a young writer who shows himself to be a master of psychological study. In addition, Clark catches the true flavor of his setting. No drug-store cowboy, the author completely revolutionizes the Zane Grey tradition of the Western novel in which men are mangled and women wangled...
Defeated by less than 2,000 votes in 1938 when he led the Democratic ticket, he hopes to gain enough independent support to win in this normally Republican district...
What of China? If Russia and Japan can reach an agreement on spheres of influence in China, China may find herself Poland. But if Russia continues to send supplies to the Chinese, China may gain by the pact. Last week the U. S. gave China a $25,000,000 credit, and Britain will doubtless reopen the Burma Road. Both Britain and the U. S. now desperately need China's aid in keeping Japan too busy to spread out into the East Indies...
...Pittsburgh, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, Columbus, Denver, St. Louis, Cleveland and Seattle, rents were definitely down. Despite California's 21.1% population gain in the past decade, San Francisco was hard hit, and better-apartment vacancies rose from 10 to a whopping 20%. A jittery Apartment House Owners Association frightened the city out of accepting a $2,500,000 United States Housing Authority grant for a slum-clearance project. In Detroit, Birmingham, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, rents looked about the same as last year. In Chicago, Cincinnati, Atlanta, Omaha, they were a modest...
...Amherst student body is convinced to a man that this is the year for another giant-killer act. The Lord Jeffs are making but one venture into the big time this fall with everything to gain and nothing to lose. Harvard would not have been more than a slight favorite over their 1939 team and certainly will not be a prohibitive choice on Saturday...