Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...preliminary to the football clash tomorrow, the University and Princeton soccer teams will meet at 2 o'clock this afternoon on Soldiers Field. The University eleven is fighting to win the three-fourths of its games required to earn the minor sports "H", and with a 5 to 0 win over Williams last week, is travelling at high speed...
...authentic information, apparently suspected that indiscreet Republican bankers were casting aspersions upon Republican protectionism for their own nefarious ends. The President thereupon trenchantly reminded the nation that those who lend money are ever anxious for international free trade, but that the Republican party stands ready to defend those who earn money in the U. S. with its tariff shield...
...bride-groom-to-be from the still more unfortunate bride-to-be. Thereafter, come wine, women, and song in hellish profusion-and especially Lya de Putti, vampire extraordinaire. After a little of this, Satan chases the poor young man back to his poor sweetheart and the tenements, evidently to earn that "hour at the gates of Paradise'' which frequent subtitles guaranteed for every soul that resisted him. The Griffith love scenes are always poignant, original, intense; the photography masterful; he seems to make his actors do better than their best. But his screen story, at most...
...Louis I. Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician, figured that a newborn baby is worth $9,333 to a family whose income is $2,500 yearly. Such parents spend $10,000 raising the child to the age of 18. Then, if it is a boy, he may be expected to earn (in excess of his expenditures) $29,000 the rest of his life. At 25, through elimination of less efficient competitors, his future income will total $32,000. But if he lives to 50, he will earn on the average only $17,500 the balance of his years...
...value of dairy products depend more on the handling of the herd and the products than on expensive registered stock' sounded sensible to me, for I was forced to sell my registered herd. The only rewards for these men will be what they can make Wabeek Farms earn for them...