Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...18th Century Carolinas. We infer that he is shy a finger on his strangling hand, that his dagger has a permanent wave and that his ministrations upon the persons of five young women derive from Jack the Ripper. We infer, that is all. Yet that is ample to earn this Turk several graduate and honorary degrees in murdery. From the barest hints he becomes a lurking presence whose actuality Mr. Houdini could scarce disparage. He and his dirty crew begin ostensibly as figments in the imagination of a marriageable young Connecticut authoress of our time. Then they make it clear...
...September, 1925, 32 student waiters were on duty in Gore Hall in response to the agitation by undergraduates and graduates urging that this opportunity be given students to earn their board. It was understood that if the system were successful in Gore Hall it would be extended to other Freshman Dormitories and elsewhere in the University...
...with reviews of concerts and operas, and glib comment on vocal activities by one "Ariel." Yet, despite the fact that the first issue of any magazine is inevitably an awkward one, critics found Singing far less dull than many of the slovenly publications in which ruined musicians try to earn a living by writing about music. Vocal students bought it eagerly. Advertisers were interested...
During his undergraduate years, the newly appointed coach and official, established' a remarkable record both as a scholar and as an athlete. While doing this Clark also found time to earn his way through his four years of college by winning scholarships and acting as Cambridge correspondent for a Boston newspaper. He was elected to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, was a member of his Class Day Committee and graduated with high honors in History. Next year he will continue his graduate work in this department which he is taking as a requirement for his doctor's degree...
...discipline? they demanded. "The Harvard experiment, delightful as it may be as an academic departure," opined the New York Herald-Tribune, "is quite at variance with the workaday system which is sure to be imposed upon its beneficiaries as soon as they leave Cambridge and set out to earn their livelihood...