Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what good ends the income from stadium gate receipts is devoted the fundamental fact remains true that football at Harvard, as elsewhere under the present system, is a business by which the University supports its other athletic activities. It differs only from professional sport in that the eleven men earn profits not for themselves but for their university. Carried to its logical conclusion one might say that an undefeated team would supply ten extra tennis courts and a new locker building while a below average team would pay only for the maintenance of the present equipment. This anachronism...
...ushers are not paid to usher. 2) Instead they pay 50 centimes (2?) a night to the management for each seat assigned tp them. 3) Therefore they must figure on a minimum tip of one franc (4?) from each person whom they usher into a seat, in order to earn even 25 francs ($1) per night...
Alone he created Saturday's Children, a drama of marriage between young things who must earn their living. Act I: heroine gets man by an old-time formula. Act II: romance wilts before love is done. Gas bills, grocers, butchers, goad the lovers into separation and sorrowing. Act III: comes reconciliation when the hero steals into his wife's bedroom for the same good reason that inspired young Porphyro to see Magdeline on the Eve of St. Agnes...
...Ford company. That the academic side is not wholly neglected is demonstrated by the fact that boys finishing a four year course there are credited with three years in other high schools. Most of the graduates become mechanics or draughtsmen. Though the pupils are thus taught to earn their own living by their hands, specialization at such an early age seems highly dangerous. The ideal of a general education is admittedly a secondary consideration. The institution is little more than a training school for the Ford factory. That children should be taught a certain amount of manual training...
...boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought to him by fawning mer- chants. The tremendous arches, waterworks and sewers at ruined Timgad earn an indulgent wave of his hand but at St. Augustine's tomb he says: "Plumb out of date, the whole business . . . I'm talkabout the whole possetucky? the whole kit-an'-boodle. . . . The human race has got to make progress. . . . The Almighty doesn't care a nickel about anything except...