Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recently elected president of Antioch College in Antioch, Ohie, will address Union members on November 20 if plans now pending are carried out. Antioch College stands in a unique position among educational institutions in that it combines industry and education, making it possible for a student to earn his entire way through college and at the same time gain a practical viewpoint along with his arts education...
Whitbeck made Wheeler earn every point. He played hard and well, even to the last game when the score stood irretrievably against him. On nearly every point the ball went back and forth across the net two or three times before the point was scored. Whitbeck seemed to lack that last finishing stroke, which Wheeler usually delivered...
Reports of the recent net earnings made to the I. C. C. by the road indicate that in 1923 alone the road should earn more than Henry Ford paid...
...labor cost constituted 71.7% of the total $5.75 ton cost. In 1913 labor cost 70% of the $2.23 ton cost. ¶There were 147,456 anthracite mine workers, according to 1920 returns. ¶Those miners who work all year earn from $1,500 to $2,000 a year. ¶The Government should get and publish regular reports on the entire anthracite business. -costs and production. ¶There is no standard method of valuing coal mines which can be applied to determine what is a fair profit. ¶For 20 years preceding 1913, anthracite production increased in proportion to population. Since...
...favorite humorist is Donald Ogden Stewart. He is a friend of mine, and I am not ashamed to write about it. Quite well, I remember a breakfast at the Yale Club when Don, having given up his job of selling bonds, told me that he was about to earn his living...