Word: earn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...winner of Monday's match will earn the right to travel to Montreal on Tuesday to play the University of Montreal, Canadian League winners...
...strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts to pin a label on the party's philosophy, instead of letting the party's deeds earn their own label...
...five-and six-man combinations in which Armstrong has worked much of his life, he has had to earn that kind of praise-and without the carefully arranged six-and eight-horn brass choirs of the big bands to smother sour notes for him. Playing without written arrangements, bending the melody around on his own, then blending in with the others when the clarinet or trombone soars off on the lead, Louis has wrung raves even from longer-haired critics. The New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson once said that Louis' style of improvisation made...
Then Dan Gardella tired of Mexican baseball after one season, and tried to climb back. Complains Gardella: "Not only did organized baseball blacklist me, but it wouldn't permit me to earn a living in semi-pro ball . . . He filed suit against the Giants, against Baseball Commissioner Albert B. ("Happy") Chandler and the major & minor leagues...
Though brokers moaned that expenses were so high they could hardly earn their carfare, the nation's biggest brokerage house last week turned in a rosy annual report. Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane (variously known to gagsters as "We, the People," "The Thundering Herd," "All This and Fenner, Too") did 9.4% of the round lot (blocks of 100 shares) trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 1948, and 12.9% of the odd-lot (less than 100 shares) business. It made a net profit of $1,704,513. This was nearly three times as much as it made...