Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...strike is occasioned purely by wage demands. According to the U. S. Coal Commission, out of 45,678 outside day men at the mines, 43,822 earn less than $2,000 a year...
...student waiters which will go into effect this fall is one of the signal steps inaugurated under the regime of W. W. Daly '14, Secretary for Student Employment. The new system, while its development is to be gradual, will provide material enlargement of the opportunity for men to earn their way through college, should it prove successful...
...week, either on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, or on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. They will in addition work on alternate Sundays. These days are arranged to enable each man who has a heavy schedule on three days a week to follow out his schedule, and at the same time earn a portion of his expenses through student waiting. It is expected that men will not take many courses on the days on which they work, but it will be possible to do some academic work, as outlined below...
...three healthy and ingenuous college youths to force their husbands' jealousy. To acquaint themselves with these young men they arrange a house party at Glen Cove (where orderly house parties are normally the rule). The young men, somewhat puzzled by the exact extent of their duties, decide to earn their money thoroughly. By the time the husbands arrive dresses are torn, shoes are off, and hair is all unpinned. The situation is complicated by the presence of three young ladies with whom the husbands hoped to spend the same week-end at the same house...
...days of his education over, he repaired, still at a tender age, to Switzerland where, to earn his living and pay his way through Lausanne University, he became a manual laborer. Subsequently, his revolutionary activities resulted in his being evicted from one Swiss canton after another; and, when he tried his fortune at journalism in Austria, he rapidly met a like fate at the hands of Emperor Franz Josef's soldiers...