Word: earn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Students and Teachers earn large pay during vacation as agents for our warranted Trees and Shrubs...
Students and Teachers earn large pay during vacation as agents for our warranted Trees and Shrubs...
...four or five hundred dollars he will make in this way will be found a very convenient addition to his other sources of revenue. Concert playing must not be looked to as a means of livelihood. There are not more than half a dozen men in this country who earn their living in that way. Composing music is anything but a lucrative employment, and though occasionally large sums are paid for a composition, publishers will not usually give more than a dollar or two for them. On the other hand if a man has a love for this kind...
...splendid victory. An entirely new system of rowing was inaugurated, and there was much grumbling and dubious head-shaking at the issue. Yale, on the contrary, was highly elated at Harvard's adoption of the "professional" stroke. Her crew, be it said, was deemed so strong as to earn the appellation of the "Yale giants," while Harvard's was not only unusually light, but, with two exceptions, was composed of men who had never before sat in a 'varsity boat. Save with the brave and meager minority who believed in the new regime, up to a week before the race...
...never understood the Indian. They had provided him with food and clothing, thereby enabling him to live in idleness, and it is no wonder that now he is unable to support himself. Instead of giving him rations, he should have been given land and farming implements and obliged to earn his own living. In spite of these great disadvantages the Indians are slowly improving, and General Armstrong believes that the western railroads have been the most important factor in civilizing the wilder tribes, for these railroads naturally bring civilization with them. The lecturer also gave words of praise...