Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...high seas coming home to Manhattan from several weeks of negotiation with British interests for the sale of his White Star Line. He had virtually in his pocket some $36,500,000, and P. A. S. Franklin is not the man to let money lie idle or even to earn puny interest...
Sirs: When a man criticizes a married woman who has gumption enough to earn a living for any reason at all, and usually she does so to support her orphaned children or to complement her husband's earnings while she at the same time competently conducts her household?then such a woman (as I am) can discuss the economic needs of her work...
...choosing a course were mentioned the personality of an instructor and relative ease and convenience of the hour of recitation. Among the items on the aide memoire respecting reasons for going to Yale were: The prestige of having a Yale degree, because it seemed "the thing to do," to earn more money, to "make" some society, or because of family tradition...
...year of internship in a recognized hospital before being acceptable as a practitioner. In the hospitals their work is supposed to be practical, the putting into practice of their academic knowledge. Their salaries are meagre, generally between $25 and $30 a month besides board, lodging and laundry. Orderlies earn $40 to $60 a month and keep. Nurses get more. But theirs is a trade, whereas the intern is an embryo professional man. He is paying in a way for his educational contracts with skilled physicians and surgeons...
...Still come rejections, until the student is faced with the alternative of entering a hospital so poorly rated that his future career is endangered, or of waiting another and ofttimes futile year for admittance to a reputable institution. Meanwhile he or she does some sort of haphazard work to earn a living...