Word: earn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...slack is work that even employed miners earn no more than the 29 shillings weekly ($7) which is paid by the State as a "dole" to the unemployed. The wage paid is 8 shillings per day ($1.92), but even men nominally "employed" are seldom given work more than three days a week...
After 25 years' service full professors at Yale should earn enough money "to maintain a home in a ten-room house which he owns free of mortgage, to keep one servant, and to pay for some occasional service, and to provide an education for his children on an equality with that obtained by the general run of students at this university. Life at this level now costs about $15,000 or $16,000 a year...
...wrote, last week, Professor Yandell Henderson (physiologist) and Assistant Professor Maurice Rea Davie (sociologist) from Yale, again expressing the trite thought that college professors earn too little...
...through the season is particularly large in this sport, which alone among the five major athletic activities offers no second team places for these men. If circumstances prevent the formation of a Second Track Team, the men who would be eligible for it merit at least an opportunity to earn a place on a class team, and their number is great enough to make a strong nucleus for such organizations...
Slender and inky black President Charles Dunbar Burgess King of Liberia welcomes nowadays many a white U. S. youth arriving to earn his fortune on the new and mighty plantations of U. S. Rubberman Harvey Firestone (TIME, Dec. 20, 1926). One such ambitious colonizer was Thomas B. Wells, 26, a Yale graduate. With his young wife he recently went out to what seemed a promising job on one of the Firestone plantations. There he contracted malaria. Prudent, he and his wife left Liberia, speeded home. Last week they were crossing the Atlantic aboard the French Line's majestic...