Word: earned
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...From all appearances there will be a considerable falling off in sales during the coming year and consequently a decrease in net earnings, for it is not possible to make a curtailment of expenses proportioned to the loss in sales. Interest, taxes, light, heat, insurance and many other items will be as large as ever, some of them larger. The Superintendent and the Directors, in preparing the expense budget for 1917-18 have reduced the past year's total (chiefly by reducing the number of employees) to the extent of about ten per cent. It did not appear practicable...
...service of man to which they have earnestly consecrated their lives. Their intelligence and facility would amend in part their lack of technical training. So also those of the Society of Friends who hold strongly to the tenets of their faith, could help their fellow-men faithfully, and earn in an inoblivious way the right to their cordial name...
...announcement was not out of accord with the traditions of our people, which is apt to mistake the word for the deed, and confound its accomplishments with its hopes. That is the error of youth, which makes grandiose speeches about conquering the world, and then starts out to earn its bread and butter. Compare Germany, which did not say what she would do till it was done. At Liege, when the valiant defenders were rejoicing that the German advance had been stemmed, and her great war-machine broken, she brought up, without warning, without boasting, her terrible siege guns, each...
...chief hardship caused by this condition appears to fall on the younger men, for the young teacher is not able to earn $2,500 until appointment as an assistant professor. If he rises to the top of his profession, he is earning $5,500 by the time he is about 55 years...
...plan of holding special examinations for those who are to enroll in the service of their country is an excellent one. By means of these examinations men will earn their degrees or promotions instead of receiving complimentary ones as is often done in time of war. There are of course, various practical questions in regard to these examinations, such as the best methods to use in order to insure fair treatment for all. At the Faculty meeting on next Tuesday those questions will be raised and discussed and some satisfactory solution of all difficulties will be found...