Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shop seeks to deprive a man of his right to associate or not to associate as he sees fit, but compelling him to either join a trade union, and be governed by its decisions, thus giving up all his personal liberty, or to be deprived of the opportunity to earn his living. The open shop stands for giving the laborer a chance to exercise his right of discrimination in choosing the place and manner in which he shall earn his living, and the associates with whom he shall work...
...life outside an entirely alien thing? One remedy suggested and practiced by many college students is to work at some useful occupation during the summer months. This is one way to earn money for the ensuing year and at the same time to learn from a teacher who accepts no excuses. --University of Washington Daily
...other words, nearly one-half of the large railroads failed, in January, to meet their operating expenses, taxes, and rentals for joint facilities or equipment, and had nothing with which to pay the interest on their bonds. In thirteen cases out of fifty-one, the roads failed to earn even their operating expenses. The estimated returns for February and March show equally alarming results...
...years ago, not a few members of the graduating class went into teaching for a time before returning to one of the professional schools. This was perhaps due in part to a desire for a rest in preparation for the board graduate work, and partly to the necessity of earning the funds for that work. More recently the modern tendency to hurry has lead to a profound change. Men are entering the professional schools immediately after graduation, preferring to borrow the needed money and push themselves right through, rather than to wait and earn it by teaching. The present...
...Junior College. "University classes are so large and the professors so indifferent, the students do not receive the opportunity for education they find in the junior college. The big universities are taking money under false, pretences," he says. The University professor "in merely filling his position in order to earn his living so that he can go on accumulating knowledge. He has no human interest in his students. He is an intellectual miser, not a teacher...