Word: earned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...provision that individual roads which earn more than 6 percent on the value of their property should share the excess with the Government--this being commonly known as the recapture clause...
...column, which appears in a well-known Boston newspaper, the "Bright Sayings of Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books...
...Holyoke House and Apthorp; to a discursive dissertation on the brilliant conversation heard on Massachusetts avenue at yet it is time to stop. Exhort the track team and the crew and all the rest of our paid athletes (cf. "The Pink", of the paper for people who think) to earn their pin-money; advocate the presentation of Macbeth, with the goodies to participate as witches; deplore the lack of interest in the museums, and the great interest in Turkish Baths--but here is the climax upon which it is wise to cease...
There will be an opportunity for a few men who wish to attend to earn their expenses at the Conference by waiting on table...
...when he finally conquered C. F. Curley after a hard, three-set match 3-6, 7-5, 11- 9. The visitor who has at times been champion of both Rhode Island and Oregon, had a great amount of steadiness and accuracy and it took Guild's best playing to earn the victory. The first doubles match in which Duane and Pfaffman beat Curley and W. W. Ingraham '25 6-3, 6-8, 6-4, provided some of the fastest rallies of the entire match. Ingraham, although a Freshman here, played with the Providence team, but his ability was unable...