Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard seconds hit in a timely fashion yesterday at Soldiers Field and defeated Wentworth Institute 7 to 3. Nash pitched well enough to earn a shutout, but two costly outfield errors led to three alien scores. The batting features were a homer to left center by Keene and a double by Field that bounced off the tennis-court screen in right center. Chase-contributed a pretty catch of a line drive to left...
...well doubt Henry Ford's supreme ability to earn dividends, or to pay them to himself as a stockholder. But security holders in the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton railroad are not so certain whether the automobile manufacturer is equally enthusiastic about earning interest and dividends for others...
...Farrell, former track mentor at Wakefield, and ex-Olympic star, is now taking a course in the University in Anthropology. During the first half year he also took a course in biology, but pressure of outside activities forced him to give this up. Eventually he hopes to earn a degree, for according to one of the managers "his fondest desire in to be a 100 per cent Harvard...
Obliged to earn her living, Selina goes out to teach school at an "incredibly Dutch settlement" in the suburbs of Chicago. It is called High Prairie; its inhabitants are truck farmers; it is dreary enough to make Gopher Prairie look like a corner at Oxford Circus. While there she marries Pervus Dejong, impecunious farmer. Immediately she finds herself being dragged down to the level of High Prairie life...
...when the Carpenter of Nazareth spoke, the common people heard him gladly, while the religious and business classes persecuted and crucified him ... It might be well for you to take a census of your own churches and especially to count the number of men on your official board who earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows...