Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seven classes bouts will be held between competing representatives of Gore. Standish, and Smith Halls to determine the winner. At 115, 126, 135, 145, 158, 175-pound and unlimited weights, the first-year men will wrestle not only for their dormitory but for a chance to earn a place on the 1928 team when it opposes Andover on February...
...mind the American colleges. They desire that the college should be an exclusive institution which shall contain only men who love the Arts and Sciences instead of business and money; where the club-room dominates over the class-room; where a man learns to live instead of to earn money; where the atmosphere is one of poetry and music instead of industry and dollars; in short, where the mind is taught to find peace in spiritual rather than material things...
...mind anything in a spirit of fun. I never sold a shoe lace, but I wouldn't be ashamed of it if I had. I woundn't care if you said I got my start driving a garbage truck. That's just as honest a way to earn money as selling bonds...
...from the Bureau at the close of the year numbered 22,610. ¶ The Interstate Commerce Commission, which asked that Congress make workable Section 28 of the Merchant Marine Act which would authorize reduced railroad rates on products shipped for export. The report declared that: 1) Few railroads were earning the 5¾% return on investment allowed under the railway act; 2) some $11,000,000 has been reported due the Government under the recapture clause by which the Government takes one-half of what the railways earn over 5¾%-and most of this amount is still in controversy...
...concentrates on the things farthest removed from his contemplated business or profession will make the most of his college career", said Professor Hopkins. Later in his speech he condemned the man who attended college to increase his earning capacity, saying, I have no sympathy with the idea that you will be able to earn more money through going to college...