Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...
Since I left office, I have worked hard as a journalist to earn my livelihood ? I am pleased to say with some success. My articles have appeared in almost every great country in the world and my emoluments from this source during these four years have been much greater than the aggregate of my salaries during seventeen years of office. This statement would have been an unwarrantable boast on my part had it not been rendered necessary by the cowardly slander privately circulated as to my use of party funds...
...arrangement was that Mrs. Webb should advance funds until Farrar's voice was ready to earn her an income. In return, Farrar's life was insured in Mrs. Webb's favor. It was all repaid, Farrar writes in her Geraldine Farrar, within two years after her return...
...Abraham A. Katz, scholar. No rabbi, he knows the windings of Talmudic law expertly. No philologist, he knows the Semitic dialects. Once he decided to memorize every word and its definition in Webster's 2,373-page Dictionary. He succeeded through several letters, until necessity forced him to earn a living. He became an expert accountant, then auditor. He saved money and invested it. Soon he had his competence. He could return to his books...
What salary a teacher can expect to earn is indicated by the published salary schedule of Cincinnati Schools, put into effect last September. For those who have had the equivalent of two years education after graduating from high school, the minimum salary is $1,400, annual increase of $100, maximum $2,000. For those who have had three years, maximum $2,500. For four years, $3,250. For those who have taken a post-graduate degree, maximum $3,500. Four years post high school training is regarded as the ideal minimum for all teachers. In Cincinnati, 38% of the elementary...