Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many investors the court decisions of last week seemed ironical. The reorganization plans were drawn up during depression years by a pessimistic ICC which set the limit on fixed charges at what the railroads could earn in lean years. But these plans now got the green light at the close of a year in which rail income hit an alltime high. Estimated C. & N. W. gross for 1943 is $165 million, net $25 million...
Although a candidate can be elected to only one board, he can earn his election by specializing. The Newsmen will welcome the incipient snooper, give him a chance to interview chorus girls and deans, and work with type. The Business staff will supplement Ec A and won't be dull either. The Photographers can find their niche roaming the streets with a Speed-Graphic or puttering, in the dark room. And if you want to lambaste that movie or play you saw in a moment of weakness, the back page will be open for your efforts, and free passes...
...emotional security in homes robbed of their parents by war plants and rocked by the immeasurable restiveness created by war itself. Babies wake screaming in siren-haunted blackouts. Boys just below draft age go on alcohol, marijuana and obscene-book jags, shrug off the discipline of parents who earn no more than they do. Mothers find it next to impossible to advise teen-age daughters who, erotically, are almost as experienced as Mother...
With a primary purpose of making the University's rare books "earn their keep" by exhibition to the public eye, Widener, Jr., otherwise known as the Houghton Library, was completed less than two years ago. Formerly the ancient manuscripts and priceless leather-bound and gold-stamped volumes had been stored in the deepest dungeons of neighboring Widener...
...stone-I'm acting and I'm talking for Negroes in the way only Shakespeare can." He will play it as long as possible, all over the country (except in the South) even though his $1,500-a-week salary is a fraction of what he can earn singing at $2,000 or $2,500 a night. For Othello he lost 35 pounds, now 230, "practically my football weight...