Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which is of more concern to Ithacans and Cornellians than the national problem. The Cornell University Employment Bureau in Barnes Hall is faced with hundreds of applicants for work, with very few positions to fill. There are many students in the University who are dependent on what they can earn to pay their way through college. Their predicament is no slight one if they cannot find work...
...situation is in a sense a reflection of the national job shortage; for there are many students who could not earn the money during the summer they had expected to, and who today are more than ever in need of work. Cornell takes pride, and justly, in the number of her students who work their way through college. But the present outlook is none too cheerful for these students...
...rates once established, disputes soon arose over the individual piece prices, employees contending that it was impossible to earn the basic rate agreed upon with the prices set on certain operations and foremen contending that certain other prices allowed the basic rate to be earned too easily, which tended to laying down on the job and consequent loss of production. Here again, the application of the plan was brought out and continues to the present to be a very satisfactory medium for obtaining justice for both sides...
...expenses for the ten days, including transportation, registration fee and board and lodging will be approximately $45. However, there will be opportunities offered to earn one's board. For foreign students no registration fee will be required, and by arrangement of the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students, board and lodging will be furnished at special rates...
...often charged with being a fomenter of disputes because a law suit gives him business and enables him to earn money, but the good lawyer is a peace-maker. Men come to him inflamed with passion, feeling that their rights have been trampled upon and that they must have what belongs to them at the expense perhaps of long litigation. The lawyer in the first place is a buffer, because after he has heard the story he tells them of the various steps that must be taken to assert their rights and the length of time required for each...