Word: earned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This policy cannot easily be condoned. The reason for it is not financial, since the dining halls already earn the University a neat profit. Although this profit is used for a worthy cause, it is profit nevertheloan, thus amashing any excuse that the high rates for the small contracts are economically necessary. It has been argued, also rather illogically, that club members not only form a distinct minority, but also make up the wealthiest group of students at Harvard. Neither of these proposals should be considered seriously. It is as important to recognize the position of a minority on this...
...earn, scrimp, save and toilsomely amass the Chinese equivalent of seven U. S. dollars may take an industrious Shanghai coolie seven years. Last week, as a great and novel civic philanthropy which aroused nationwide excitement, Chinese Mayor Wu Te-chen of Shanghai enterprisingly began to marry poor Chinese in batches for only seven dollars per couple...
...uncertainty of the Independents (see above) was another mass exhibition in Manhattan last week, on the mezzanine floor of towering RCA Building where the Society of Illustrators was holding its 33rd annual exhibition. Displayed was technical dexterity carried to a high degree by men who as a group probably earn more than any other living painters. This year's show, entitled "Playtime and Paytime," consisted less of the magazine illustrations and advertisements that, removed from their text, always look so lost on a gallery wall, than of landscapes, portraits and bits of statuary. But what excited all Society members...
Last week a crowd gathered on the steps of New York County's Supreme Court House to witness a bankruptcy sale of the property of Hudson River Navigation Corp. Forced to earn a year's maintenance in four summer months, the 100-year-old concern went under in 1932, has since been operated at a loss by court trustees. Sole bidder for its assets last week was a contractor named Harry R. Pearley, whose offer of $100,100 was promptly accepted. Newshawks soon found that the real buyer was not Mr. Pearley but a fat and fabulous...
...besides campaigning to increase subscriptions for next year by at least 10%. Then, in addition to the 14 weeks of winter opera at the old price-scale ($7 top), there must be a supplementary "popular" season in which young U. S. singers can air their talents and perhaps earn a winter engagement. (Cynical wiseacres suspected that graduates of the Juilliard Music School would find the way to the Metropolitan stage easier than other young aspirants would...