Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whether Miss Byrne was capable of teaching. After examining her with care, he stated that she was suffering from a "paranoid form of psychosis." At this, Mary Byrne was removed from her classroom, given odd jobs to do in the Training School Library so that she could earn her salary of $3,700 a year, while the Board of Education investigated her case...
...this was happening President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. was looking after his luggage, having just returned from Europe. There he found that the corporation was selling more cars in Germany than in any other foreign country. He expects G. M. C. to earn between $223,000,000 and $225,000,000 this year...
...bouncing of the boat betrays the nearness of the eight ahead, the cox hitherto vociferous in his assertions that the crew is "right up on them" becomes suddenly silent. The time has come when he must earn his passage. Slowly, infinitely slowly, the bows curve in. Too much rudder or a shot the wrong way, for it is impossible to see, means ruin. But he knows his boat and can tell from the feel what is happening. At last there is a slight jolt and the cox ahead rises his hand. But it is a tremendous relief to all when...
...accordance with this theory Constance determines to go to work, and earn enough to pay her board and lodging, and so have no obligations toward her husband. This she does, and at the end of the play she hands John a cheque for a thousand pounds, and tells him that she is going off for a six weeks' holiday with another man, who has loved her for fifteen years...
...Urbana, Ill., where Harold ("Red") Grange learned to earn a living at football,* the National Academy of Sciences met last week. Mentioned during the proceedings were...