Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader of the Red and Blue forces is Hen Soleliae, six foot two Sophomore, who has scored 90 points in nine games to gain a somewhat better average than with 92 in ten games. Wes Fesler calls Soleliae one of the most promising men in the League and he is certain to be a continual menace to the Harvard basket tonight...
Secretary MacDonald was not expected to have any trouble getting his bill through the House of Commons. Journalist H. N. Brailsford asked in the London News why all this discrimination in favor of the Indies' natives. "Let us not underestimate their gain. It comes to nearly a halfpenny for each of them through every week of the year - two fifths of a penny to be exact...
...There is infinite opportunity for students to gain practical experience in government right here in Cambridge," he said. "For example, undergraduates can become campaign workers and receive an introduction to some of the hard knocks of politics...
...what it's worth. Americans have deserted the reality of intuition, absolute values, rationalism, and the reality of society itself for an inflation and a perversion of their original empirical findings. They tolerate the thorn in the flesh in order to pluck the ephemeral rose of immediate material gain...
...Yale polo team is going to get a hot reception when it rides into the Commonwealth Armory Saturday evening, for the Crimson malletmen are primed to turn the tables on the Elis and gain revenge for the 14 to 9 defeat handed them in New Haven last weekend. The Blue riders will probably expect an easy victory, but the situation will be a different one from last Saturday's. The game then was played in Yale's home arena, which is somewhat less than half the size of the Armory...