Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...different teams. Thus when Harvard meets Yale this Saturday, the Elis will still have in the back of their minds the prospect of a clash with the Tiger at the end of another week, while the Crimson, with everything to win and nothing to lose, will be determined to earn the right to a play-off game a fortnight later...
...point of financial remuneration, Mr. King said: "I suppose that any active writer can easily earn from $1500 to $4000. These would be the small incomes. With relative ease...
...congress of superior Caucasians, and to raise $50,000,000 to endow his efforts to salvage the human race. He claims to have determined the sex of 95 babies in utero, including his own two children. His eugenic program is his own secret, for, says he: "I have to earn my living." But in due time mankind will be regenerated. The New York World (see Page 24 for the record of this newspaper for public service) unkindly exposed some unflattering features of his career, and the Hotel Pennsylvania cancelled the arrangements for his congress. His hair is curly...
...Intent. "The new act seeks affirmatively to build up a system of railways prepared to handle promptly all the interstate traffic of the country. It aims to give the owners of the railways an opportunity to earn enough to maintain their properties and equipment in such a state of efficiency that they can carry well this burden...
Here is a subtle distinction. A man must have some outside business or source of income so that he may engage in tennis merely for pleasure. But if he earn a small amount, he is still and amateur...