Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries. "Your missionaries who come to teach us are generally of a type who could not earn a living another way and are unfit to teach us Christianity. Some of them are admirable men, but I speak of the average, mediocre in mental calibre and unequipped intellectually to carry on the work," said Amherst-educated Count Aisuke Kabayama, member of the Japanese House of Peers, last week as he prepared to travel, via the U.S., for the coming Parliamentary Congress in London. A baptized member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he finds good in both Buddhism and Christianity...
...Federation has three mother's milk depots at three Health Stations. Thither come mothers who are producing more milk than their own babies need. They can sell the balance of the day's production and earn thereby enough money to keep from working. If they went to work while breast feeding, their own children would suffer from irregular nutrition. Besides, the energy the mothers need for creating milk would go into work. They could go around as wet nurses. But there too the effect of irregular hours would tell. The foster baby would also probably suckle more milk than...
...first thing to be considered when a man is looking for summer employment is, first, what the man's primary object is in taking a summer job, and second, the amount of money which he finds it desirable to earn...
...fields which may be open as being highly profitable. One of these is selling; the other is tutoring. I realize perfectly well that sales work does not appeal to some men. I do know, however, that there is no work which can give a man greater opportunity to earn money, depending entirely on his own ability to produce, nor one which will be of greater benefit to him after he has finished his college work, because the principles of selling which he will learn and the ability to meet people on a business basis, which he will acquire, will both...
...student employment office is hounded with people who would have students sell silk handkerchiefs, ladies' rain coats, shoes, "ships, sealing wax", and I doubt not, "cabbages and kings." In every case a liberal commission is offered and there is "no limit to the amount of money a man can earn...