Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Hopper believes that the current disturbances in the Netherlands are merely a continuation of the German "red-herring" policy in the last decade. While diverting British attention to the Lowlands, the Germans hope to gain valuable time for entrenching themselves in the Scandinavian Peninsula, time which may mean the difference between success and defeat in this all-important fight. If the Germans can hold Norway, they will have effectively broken the British blockade...
...such appendectomies, he went on, "the patient is supposed to have everything to gain and nothing to lose. Would to God that this were true! . . . Actually 60 of the 255 patients . . . were decidedly the worse for the operation. . . . Only two were cured...
...case the war goes Germany's way, Italy might enter, but only when the issue is clear and the last battle half-fought. In the last analysis Italy has far more to gain from beating the Allies with Germany than from watching the Allies win-to wit, a juicy slice of the French colonial empire, plus a share in control of Central Europe...
...Bertrand Russell as proof. Apparently New York's Justice McGeehan is of the same mind, for he has voided the appointment. Harvard is nevertheless holding fast, and will welcome Russell as James Lecturer next year. It should do even more; C.C.N.Y.'s loss can be the University's gain, if Harvard grabs the scholarly Earl for a whole year instead of merely a half...
According to Jack E. McKee, assistant in Sanitary Engineering and Chairman of the Committee, engineering students find themselves in a very awkward situation as regards housing, since they may gain admittance to a dormitory only after the students at the other graduate schools have been housed. For this reason, only six men are at present housed in University dormitories...