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Word: earn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made statements: 345,000 girls in the U. S. have become brides and mothers at the age of 15 or less; they have married men whose ages varied between 16 and 52. Poor parents, the League charged, get around the compulsory education laws and get their daughters to help earn their board and keep, by consenting to their marriage at 14 or 15. Now the League seeks the enactment of a law that will raise the legal age at which girls may be married with the parental blessing from 14 to 16 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Age of Consent | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...laurels. Score: 8-6, 1-6, 6-3. The gallery resounded as the hardy matron, paired with G. Peabody Gardner Jr., walked forth for a third joust-this time the finals of the mixed doubles. Mrs. Wightman still displayed no sign of fatigue; gave Mr. Gardner excellent support; helped earn her third title of the day, defeating two promising youngsters, Miss Sarah Palfrey and Malcolm Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hardy Matron | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...Fatty" (Roscoe Conkling) Arbuckle, onetime cinema comedian, signed two contracts last week- to appear in vaudeville on the Pantages Circuit;* and to act in a series of films made in Germany. He expects to earn $2,500,000 in five years. Since the orgiastic, accidental death of one Virginia Rappe in 1921 no U. S. producer has dared risk the national opprobrium against "Fatty" Arbuckle. Last week he looked both doleful and healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Billion & a Half | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

...does Roland Hayes earn a living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Evening This Week: Game No. 4 | 3/21/1927 | See Source »

...Sturdy Secretary of Labor James J. Davis is proud of Pennsylvania. Born in South Wales, he moved to the little town of Sharon, Pa., finished his schooling at the age of eleven and went into the steel mills to earn a life-long respect for labor and laborers (TIME, Jan. 10). Last week came his turn to entertain President and Mrs. Coolidge at the last of the Cabinet dinners of the season, and he presented to them Pennsylvanians, Worthington Scranton of Scranton and a score of such stalwarts of the state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Mar. 14, 1927 | 3/14/1927 | See Source »

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